US historian Arthur Schlesinger once remarked that leadership makes the world go round but love smooths the way. Madiba Magic – serving tea to adversaries – certainly smoothed South Africa’s way. But it was Nelson Mandela the tough politician who persuaded right-wing Afrikaners to participate i.
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Through emigration, the country is losing its most valuable assets, people that, as a developing economy, it can’t afford to lose, writes Barney Mthombothi.