Good for SA, good for the region

Coming from a nondescript background – growing up in Kagiso on the West Rand – Maimane represents a refreshing break from the typical African political leader, who in most cases is advanced in years. The ‘Rainbow Nation’ could just have caught its second wind. From the heady days following independence in 1994, reality soon set in, in our neighbour as the government there took in the scale of a historically skewed socio-economic challenge.

Expectations were high, even unrealistic, and the ruling African National Congress (ANC) soon found itself falling out of favour with some of its previously most hardened supporters.