BACKSTORY: Investment Solutions' Lesiba Mothata
We question Lesiba Mothata, chief economist at Investment Solutions. What’s the most interesting thing about you that people don’t know? When called for duty, I can get into blue-collar workwear and paint, dig and lay bricks with a construction team. What do you consider the most overrated virtue? Confidence that borders on pride is distasteful when it is observed in a person who exhibits such arrogance and does not know it. Which phrase or word do you most overuse? Machinations. Where were you when Nelson Mandela was released from prison? I was in my village, Chebeng in Polokwane, with my family. Even as a youngster in grade 7, it occurred to me that it was a monumental day for SA and its people. One could feel the significance of the moment in the air. What are you reading at the moment? What’s the one book everyone should read before they die? George Akerlof and Robert Shiller’s Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why it Matters for Global Capitalism. Eve...
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