Fluid Thoughts: WRC CEO Dhesigen Naidoo (Water Wheel January/February 2014)

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Fluid Thoughts Fluid Thoughts WRC CEO, Dhesigen Naidoo We herald in 2014, our twentieth anniversary of a free and democratic South Africa, with mixed feelings at the WRC. We do for the first time for most of us without the Father of our Nation, and arguably one of the greatest human beings in human history, Tata Nelson Mandela, no longer with us. The sadness that continues to tug our heartstrings are however overwhelmed by the will he has stimulated in all of us to continue his life’s work of vectoring our endeavours so that the net impact is to expand the frontiers of human dignity. In those 20 years since 1994, the world has become a remarkably different place. The 1990s were characterised by a unipolar, US-led post-cold war world and a dramatically weakened Russian Federation. The only tangible economic threat to the US’s fortunes was a steadily strengthening Euro on the back of a galvanised expanding European Union.

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