/ 12 September 2001

?NOW IS THE TIME FOR COOL HEADS? – SACOB

THE SA Chamber of Business (Sacob) on Wednesday called for calm within the South African financial sectors in the aftermath of terror attacks in the United States on Tuesday. Sacob said in a statement it would support any measures monetary authorities and the JSE Security Exchange might take to soften the impact on the South African markets and economy. It condemned the attacks and said it would support any steps the US would take to bring those responsible to book. Such actions should be met with the strongest possible measures to ensure that a recurrence of events such magnitude did not happen again. ”Sacob believes now is the time for cool heads, to firstly address and fix a broken US society and the horrific results of this terror attack and secondly to analyse and rationalise all angles related to this event,” the chamber said. Any decisions taken by the US authorities would be justified, it said – Sapa