Sibanye-Stillwater CEO Neal Froneman and Remgro CEO Jannie Durand, who are leading a business-government initiative against crime and corruption, will go it alone if there is any attempt to ‘stonewall’ them.
So says Froneman in an interview with Business Times.
‘We’re designing our crime and corruption initiative so we can achieve 80% of our aims alone,’ he is quoted as saying.
According to Froneman, one priority is to disrupt criminal supply chains. He says business has the capacity to do this independently of the government.
‘We know who [the criminals involved] are and we will disrupt them, we will chop them off at their knees,’ Froneman says.
He adds: ‘Civil society needs to step up, run municipalities, fix infrastructure. It’s hopeless waiting for government to do it. We can’t sit back and allow this to continue.’
Froneman is also quoted as saying that it bothers him ‘intensely’ that while Ramaphosa talks about a “shared determination” to turn the economy around his government ‘continues to promote policies that drive us in the wrong direction’.
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