By Alec Hogg
I spent a good part of yesterday on a fascinating Bloomberg podcast. Fascinating, that is, for South Africans as we get a rare insight into the way the world sees us via Timothy O’Brien, host of the global media giant’s Crash Course podcast, who visited the country to see what happens when the lights go out.
It’s three-quarters of an hour, so I edited it down as much as possible to make it more palatable for the attention deficit mass of society. You’ll find the edited version here – should you prefer the full monty, click here.
___STEADY_PAYWALL___Pretoria’s propensity to deal with a crisis is in direct proportion to the attention paid to it by the international community. That’s rational. As a developing country, SA desperately needs foreign capital to grow its economy. So what outsiders think matters—a lot.
O’Brien will undoubtedly help that cause – he is a thought-leading heavyweight: senior executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion, former editor for the New York Times and author of the bestseller “TrumpNation: The Art of Being The Donald.” Thanks, Tim. Hopefully, you’ll ensure SA doesn’t waste yet another good crisis.
Sterkte.
Alec
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