Top South African business leader Patrice Motsepe on Friday made an impassioned plea to all South Africans, irrespective of political affiliation, to close ranks and focus on building an economy that is sufficiently strong to benefit the country’s entire population.
Speaking at the presentation of 51%-lower half-year headline earnings on dollar-priced commodity declines across the empowered company’s entire portfolio, the executive chairperson of diversified mining company African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) made the point that South Africans could ill afford extreme politics like that of highly developed and sophisticated economies and needed to bond centrally to ensure vital economic wellbeing for all.