“We have forgiven all the looters and we have realised that what is important is our lives. We are intact and we can rebuild.”
Margaret Hirsch joins Massmart CEO Mitch Slape in sharing how they are looking ahead after devastationHirsch’s executive director Margaret Hirsch in the remains of the appliance retail chain’s Springfield Park store.More than 31 of retail giant Massmart’s stores and facilities — including the massive Riverhorse Distribution Centre and the Makro in Springfield Park — have been destroyed.
Massmart CEO Mitch Slape has since Monday been sending a nightly letter to all 48,000 of the group’s staff members. In Wednesday night’s one, he wrote: “It often happens in difficult situations that our emotions can go from very high to quite low.
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