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Acknowledgements

UR sincere thanks go to SLG for Getting to know more about the leaders of
their support of the KZN Business the Province and the various factors that have
Leaders Portfolio, without which motivated them and driven their careers has been
Owe would not have been able a very rewarding undertaking. Each of them has
to produce this publication. A big thank in-depth experience in their particular fields of
you to all the business people (and their expertise as well as much insight into business
assistants) profiled here for submitting and management and leadership. We have also
revising articles, answering questions and/ enjoyed hearing of their successes as well as their
or participating in interviews. Without your abilities to overcome challenges.
willingness to contribute your time and energy Of significance is that a common thread in their
to the Portfolio, we would not be able to business journeys is the desire to make a difference
produce a quality product.
in the lives of the people of our Province, very
It has been a pleasure to embark on this often by going above the norm and striving for
project, which started with the first issue of innovative approaches to doing business.
Moving and Shaking in August 2015. The editorial The growing collection of business leaders’
team decided that the publication would feature stories prompted the creation of a website
a face of a KwaZulu-Natal leader on each www.kznleaders.co.za. Within the first
publication, along with their business story. month of its existence, the website received over
The success of this format was carried over to 200 000 hits and continues to attract much traffic.
the KZN Business Sense publication, when the
KwaZulu-Natal Business Chamber’s Council came We look forward to add more business
on board the initiative. leaders’ stories to our collection.

Credits

Cindy Norcott’s article (full version) first appeared in the Sunday Tribune and was written by
Mary Papayya 26 August 2016.

Morton Shafiq, Imtiaz Sooliman and the Gift of the Givers: A Mercy to All, Bookstorm, 2014.