SKILLS
‘Partnering with
customers is key’
Poverty. Unjust, unsustainable poverty. For South Africans, it is our most
dangerous enemy. To all intents and purposes, it is our only enemy.
T
he National Development Plan (NDP) sets
out a 12-page vision of a society all but free of
the scourge of poverty and its handmaidens –
unemployment, crime, ineffective public service
and exploitative business practices. It focuses on
the common enemy. There may be much controversy about
how to eliminate it, but the goal is clear. It is no surprise that
the NDP explicitly addresses banking. Banks are inevitably
going to be co-creators of the country that the NDP promises.
Without banking, there can be little or no growth. There
will be no capital for the creation of the 11 million jobs
that will reduce South Africa’s GINI co-efficient from 0.69
to 0.6, or for the massive increases in infrastructure and
efficiencies required to drive improvements in all spheres of
South African life and create a fairer, more equal, infinitely
more sustainable society.
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