to be well received in the shadow of the company’s actions that makes it impossible for those practitioners to protect South Africa’s most vulnerable from Covid-19. People measure true social responsibility not by corporate social responsibility programmes, but by core business strategies and outcomes.of violence to advance a political cause should be of critical concern to all of us, not least the businesses that are already in the sights of those agitating for fundamental economic change.
Business leaders can, as they largely did until the very end of the apartheid era, claim to be doing what they can, constrained by a fundamentally flawed system — while with every new insult and injury they chip away at confidence in the global market system on which their business depends.
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