Opinion
Time for the 'talented tenth' of SA to make their presence felt
Our country needs senior public servants dedicated to excellence and the delivery of public services
07 July 2019 - 00:20
As we transit through the first quarter of a century of the democratic experiment called the New SA, there is no better time than now to call for the rise of what WEB du Bois called the Talented Tenth...
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