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Accountancy SA
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June 1, 2008
- Author:
- Julies, Raina
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The golden issue
I waited a while this month to get going on this editorial. As you are aware, every newspaper and television news bulletin, in boardrooms across the country, at lunches, meetings, in business editorials and corridor conversations, are all peppered with doom and gloom. So when I read this month's Straight Shooting by Nazeer Wadee (page 7), I was suitably challenged not to ignore the realities with which we live (increasing petrol and food prices, major job losses in the mining industry, ever looming threats of electricity hikes, high crime statistics, corruption, the Zimbabwe 'crisis', etc.), but to celebrate and be expectant of what is surely to follow this quagmire.
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