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PEOPLE-FOCUSED RESILIENCE FOR As companies scramble to adapt to the rapidly unfolding impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a sense that our very foundations are shifting. Construction World s poke to AfriSam Sales and Marketing Executive Richard Tomes about how the industry and the country should retain its footing. A POST-COVID FUTURE

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