“I have a dream for SA in 2017…” – we want yours for publication on Biznews

There was a delicious sense of inevitability yesterday as the brave young Proteas dug themselves out of a deep Newlands hole. Once again we were reminded there is no substitute in sport (or life) for the potent cocktail of resilience and talent.

Yesterday might prove a metaphor for the nation as a whole. With a President sure to continue throwing misguided haymakers, 2017 is shaping up to be the year when South Africa rises from the canvas to regain its higher purpose. The year when those whose plundering threatens to make SA another failed African state, are finally dispatched.

To remind us of the possibilities, Biznews wants to articulate a dream of what SA might be. We kick off the series today with "I have a dream…" contributions from Thuli Madonsela, Bernard Swanepoel and myself. More to come in the next few days – including yours please.

If these contributions move something within you, find your inner Martin Luther King and send yours to alec@biznews.com with a short bio of yourself and a pic you wouldn't mind seeing published. We're standing by.