Habé Roode - Hygrotech International Inc.

June 2003

What is your vision for the future?
My vision of the future? One makes of the future what one puts in to create one's own future. There "ain’t no free lunches" and "getting up early in the morning" will go a long way to make one’s own future happen. You have to believe in what you are doing and at the same time enjoy it. In Hygrotech’s unique strategy to establish regional companies and a supply company with personnel shareholding in all these subsidiaries, we are creating a strong basis of responsibility and accountability in an overall strategy to relentlessly pursue personnel excellence.

With this working and a company with unique products, an opportunistic product development policy supported by a strong infrastructure and practical logistics, I believe our future in Hygrotech is bright and promising. The markets in South Africa and the other SADC countries are certainly there to develop in order to achieve success for the Hygrotech subsidiaries and its customers. If the economic situation and outlook in Southern African remain positive, with strong support from investing countries In Europe, the Far East and the USA, I expect to see real growth in Africa during the next decade.

The political issues, specifically in Zimbabwe, have to be addressed by all the Southern African leaders in order to re-establish stability and confidence in the region so that real growth can be sustained with the support of our partners, investors and supporters. Individuals and companies who have decided to leave the sub-continent have made their choices. The remaining core of us Africans will stay and make a sustainable living here and create our own future with the necessary confidence and support from the world out there. If something goes really wrong, my family and I will be "the last ones to feed the dolphins and turn the lights off".

 

 

 

 

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