Boardroom Talk – RW Johnson: What we already know about SA’s 2024 Election

By Alec Hogg

Although Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg address is the one quoted most often, even a century and three quarters later, there's much for our species to reflect on from the equally concise address (701 words) by the US's greatest president at his second inauguration (click here).

Lincoln's driving force as president was to incorporate as citizens the one-eighth of Americans who were black slaves and concentrated in the Southern states. He realised that ending slavery was imperative to sustain the US's democracy, which many forget was globally very much an experimental governance system in the mid-1800s.

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