Nothing like a crisis to foster common purpose

30 August 2015 - 02:00
By Ann Crotty

When business bangs on about the government not supporting it, precisely what part of business is it referring to? No sooner had the departments of trade and industry and economic development undertaken to try to bail ArcelorMittal South Africa out of the huge hole it dug itself into, with considerable help from China, than up pops Gerhard Papenfus of the National Employers' Association of South Africa, sounding indignant.

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