Herman Mashaba looked like a man enduring a hefty workload when we connected late yesterday afternoon for our scheduled interview. Which he is. Still, I was especially keen to put Paul O’Sullivan’s advice to him that the Action SA’s leader slow down on demanding Cyril Ramaphosa resignation over Phala Phala.
As it happened, that suggestion fell on deaf ears. But there was much else in what followed to make the conversation fascinating. As it always seems to be when I connect with Herman, a successful entrepreneur whom I’ve been privileged to know (and admire) for many years.
Mashaba remains a reluctant politician. He finds it a brutal job, but has been driven towards because of the national need. So loves sharing uplifting moments, like how Action SA is celebrating over 100 branches in North West and Limpopo provinces – and that he’d just emerged from a positive “four or five hour” meeting with DA leader John Steenhuisen.
___STEADY_PAYWALL___As with most of the discussions with the man who opened the very first BizNews conference, the interview is well worth watching. If only to remind yourself that there are people working really hard to change our country. Zealots who believe in the core of their existence that SA will not survive another five years of ANC rule. Hope springs.
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Many South Africans who are able to afford it, are re-locating to the Western Cape which the official opposition political party, the Democratic Alliance, has been using as something of a template. In this interview, the province’s Premier Alan Winde explains why the DA continues to encourage ‘semigration’, a direct consequence of clean governance – despite the numerous challenges which the flood of new arrivals presents. He spoke to Alec Hogg of BizNews.
