“To move forward with purpose requires that we extricate the public and private sectors from the current comfort zones,” president Nelson Mandela told the South African parliament at the opening of its 1996 session in Cape Town early last month.
The sentiment is keenly endorsed by the burgeoning black business sector. What is more, the vast majority of brokers on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) appreciate the importance of the radical shake-up it demands. Yet beneath this apparent consensus, the legacy of apartheid is writ large across South African business.
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