In a an article on corporate statesmen -Kuseni Dlamini ,the former CEO of Old Mutual and Anglo American is quoted as saying that “ In the ultimate analysis business cannot survive in a society that is teeming with with uneducated and unemployed people….it is in the self-interest of business to do more to make society a better place” Enter Solms-Delta, a wine estate in the Western Cape Region of South Africa. The wine farm was bought by Professor Mark Solms,an internationally renowned neurologist. I was so moved by this reputable wine estates equity structure that i wrote an article for the blog that I write for based in the UK link Solms Delta has a 3 way equity structure two-thirds are equally owned by Professor Mark Solms and his partner and a third is a community owned trust.
Essentially the community earns 33% of the profits and this is then ploughed back into deepening the human capital development of the farm employees and their families. Please follow the link below to read my argument for responsible and inclusive capitalism like the Solms-Delta model http://statelessdiplomat.blogspot.com/2014/05/a-new-approach-to-new-capitalism.html