CAPITAL: The Voice of Business Issue 1, 2015 | Page 29

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A robotic arm at Pressure Die Castings performs its choreographed dance, while a worker
supervises. PHOTO: Barry du Plessis.

itzburg compare with businesses globally?
of how business is done in Europe. The
Britain of the ’60s is gone. It doesn’t exist
anymore.
“From Poland to the United States, it’s
all the same. It’s a fast-changing world
everywhere.
He explains that the “messiness” that
we perceive in a democratic South Africa
is not unique to us, but is a feature of
democracy that all developed countries
experience. Our apartheid past, a time
where things were tightly controlled and

almost stage managed for a minority, is
not the reality of the world at large.
“In South Africa you are just reverting
to the mean now,” he explains. “All
developed countries are, indeed, messy.”
However, he points out that in South
Africa there is still a desperate need for
inclusiveness and if we get that right, it
presents “tremendous opportunities”
.
“If you want to go fast, go alone,” Ballé
concludes. “But if you want to go far, go
together.”
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