It will be good to have Ebrahim Rasool back in Washington as SA’s ambassador. Of the many I’ve known, since the late Pik Botha’s time here in the 1970s, he was his country’s most effective interlocutor.

But I am biased. We became friends when I was US country manager for Brand SA. He was wonderful to work with (as was the great Barbara Masekela, the Dame Maggie Smith of SA envoys)...

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