Capitec chief executive Gerrie Fourie is generally optimistic about the potential and opportunities for South Africa – but the government needs to step up in a big way if it is to be reached.
Capitec chief executive officer Gerrie Fourie says that he is positive about the potential and opportunities available in South Africa, despite the many crises and challenges it faces.
“I’m positive about the future. I’ve learned, if you’re negative, you can’t see the opportunities – and I think we have a lot of people here who see opportunities,” he said. “What we need is for the government and the private sector to work together and to make sure that plans are implemented and implemented fast,” he said.
The government sees private sector involvement in anything it does as “giving control away”, Fourie said, when really it’s about getting service delivery going.Fourie said that the government has a massive skills gap when it comes to tackling the issues facing the country, and it should lean and tap into the private sector to deliver what needs to be delivered.
Private schools, private security, private healthcare, and more recently private energy production and private companies fixing infrastructure – wherever the state has failed, private companies have stepped in – usually to a politician’s chagrin.
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