On one of my morning runs this week I had a chance to listen to rapper K.O's new album SR2, which has a song called SA Rising, featuring one of our best exports in Black Coffee, and it reminded me of the big job at hand for South Africa's political and business leaders in 2018. The song kicks off with the words: "Tell me where we going, tell me where we going. I think we losing it, we need some direction moving forward. This ain't the same rainbow nation ka Mandela as we know it. The citizens are really getting fed up if you noticing. You see the country depreciating at a rapid pace. Some folks are immigrating tryna get away. We need to continue praying for a better day. Hope this message can go all the way up to the head of state. "Dear Mr President, with everything happening in the country. Hope you understand why some of your residents are panickin'. Can be challenging to be patriotic emzansi sometimes. When you look at the shenanigans in the cabinet. Pretty evident how political...

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