We view South Africa as one of our closest strategic partners in the developing world and in the African continent.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Obviously, South Africa is our most important market, but we are also gradually increasing our presence throughout East and West as well as North Africa. It is a continent with a lot of potential which we plan to tap into.
South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
I've heard people say South Africans are arrogant, that they act no differently from their colonial masters. That needs to change. It's in your business interest as an entrepreneur to form meaningful partnerships. That's how you do well for your shareholders.
We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
I have always thought that the rapid economic development of South Africa would in the long run prove to be incompatible with the government's racial policies, and recent events have tended to confirm my opinion.
I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
We all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all.
Africa has become the big game of the nation hunters. Today, Africa looms as the greatest commercial, industrial and political prize in the world.
Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.
I feel no bond with South Africa, which is curious, since South Africa is where I was born.