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Mr. Nao Norman Sipula is a __________ member Integrity Environmental Holdings (Pty) Board
board
I have had a number of the board members, including yourself contact me to clarify whether this was really something that was relevant for a company of our __________
size
Solomon Mbenwa lost his long struggle against ________
AIDS
As the CEO of this company, I had the unpleasant responsibility of having to deal with this matter during Solomon's last days, as well as continue to deal with his funeral and his ________ affairs following his death
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Most of the non–executive board members joined us in ________ this year
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IES lost a most valued employee Mr. ________
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During this process, not only were I and my staff faced with many challenging and unexpected decisions, but the realisation that all of this last minute shuffling was in fact too late. Had we been pro–active a lot sooner in terms of detection and treatment, we could have at very little cost and trauma to ourselves and the company, saved Solomon's ______.
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Prior to being involved with Solomon's death I was not aware that if HIV is detected early on and treated appropriately, one can enable a person to live a fully normal and functional ______ for a long time.
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Although many of us suspected that Solomon had AIDS, the decision to not get involved distanced us from him and only during the last deteriorating stage of his life did we have his status ______.
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Unsure of our rights, position and responsibility, and in the absence of any policy or guideline on how to deal with an AIDS employee, we let this matter linger on for too long, until the last moments when we were then forced to deal with this ______.
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During our exposure to Solomon's family following his death, we discovered that Solomon's wife is now also in the last stages of AIDS and is cared for by her only son, 13 year old Mpho, who between his schooling and other household chores, is the only one that now nurses his bed ridden ______.
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I mention this as we sometimes only think of the employee directly and do not recognise the devastating trail that this disease leaves in the immediate and extended ______.
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In Solomon's case, I took decisions around how to and what to fund and some of these decisions may have inadvertently set precedents for the ______.
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This thus highlights the fact that I feel that the company is highly exposed as long we do not have a clear strategy and policy that guides how we as a company deal with this ______.
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In my initial discussions this week with the directors around this agenda item their majority sentiment was that an HIV/AIDS policy is yet another bureaucratic policy that is not relevant to an SMME company of our ______.
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They felt such a policy is more ______ to an SMME company of our size.
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