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The Group Managing of a group of companies I worked, visited my location and asked "Is there nothing you can do to reduce our medical expenses here?" My answer was, I am working on it. I implemented a major medical procedural change which resulted in the reduction of our medical expenses by over 80% without affecting the health of the employees. However, those who benefited from the sharp practised ganged up against me, demanding the termination of my appointment. This demand was rejected by the Group Head Office and all the managers who supported the demant were sacked.

In our personal products factory, the Factory Manager, Quality Control Manager and the Vice Chairman of the branch union were all from the same village, but the General Manager was an expatrate. The Branch Union Vice Chairman was caught stealing products by throwing them over the fence of the factory. After a thorough investigation, I instructed the Factory Personnel Manager to terminate the Vice Chairman's appointment which he did. When the Personnel Manager,s appointment was due for confirmation, the FM and QCM pressured the General Manager to refuse confirmation which I had to overrule and confirmed the appointment of the Personnel Manager.

We had a machine operator in the factory who covered his absence from work with sick leaves for over two months. One day an ananymous caller informed me that the Machine Operator was not sick but was working in a particular place. When I visited the organisation, it was confirmed that he had  been working with them from the date of the first sick leave. Based on this written confirmation, we terminated his appointment with effect from the date of the first sick leave when he started the parallel job.

The staff we spoke about last week, closed again an hour before closing time exactly four weeks later and his manager recommended termination of appointment.   As would be expected I rejected the recommendation and did not give any suggestions. This issue draged on for six weeks and took on ethnic colouration. I was reported to the Expatriate  Managing Director for obstructing staff discipline in the company. TheManaging Director ruled without hearing from me that anyone who disagrees with my position should resign his appointment before the close of work that day. They all left the Managing Director's office with great disappointment and shame.