TONY LEON: Business leaders will have to fill the governance vacuum
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13 September 2023 - 05:00
Overlooking Kirstenbosch National Botanic Garden in Cape Town beside a cedar tree is the grave of its visionary founder, Harold Pearson. His epitaph, with a bow to Sir Christopher Wren, reads, “If ye seek his monument look around you.’’
Pearson, who died at just 46 in 1916, did not live to see how, more than a century after its founding, Kirstenbosch and the trees and plants he collected would still enchant, thrive and evolve. ..
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