Pharmaceutical retail giant, DISCHEM, recently got heavy criticism, which included a brief consumer boycott, from some quarters after it announced that it would stop employing and promoting white South Africans in a bid to boost it's transformation agenda. The memo signed by DISCHEM CEO, Ivan Saltzman, was seen by others as contravening the Employment Equity Act and labour union SOLIDARITY threatened to take legal action if the directive was not withdrawn. The Hatch Institute, which promotes culture driven business leadership, has come to the defence of DISCHEM saying the company's decision is right and deserves support and not condemnation. We spoke to the Institute's CEO, Ian Fuhr
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