Fire the GNU - Rob Hersov, Gerhard Papenfus explain why SA (still) isn’t working

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In this powerful discourse, two of South African business’s loudest independent voices share root causes for the collapse of Arcellor Mittal’s long steel business - and with it the viability of Newcastle, KZN’s third biggest metro. Capitalist activist Rob Hersov and NEASA’s Gerhard Papenfus pull no punches about malevolent and incompetent political rulers whose destructive impulses, they believe, are now being continued through the Government of National Unity. They spoke to BizNews editor Alec Hogg.
14 Jan 2025 7AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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