We South Africans can do nothing about our past but we can do something about our future and among the key needs is for us is to have a sense of common purpose around the rebuilding of this economy. A lot of money goes into educating our people and other countries are benefiting from that investment by luring our professionals into their economies.
As a country of choice, we would also be able to lure the skills we need to this country, where public-private partnerships are already emerging quite encouragingly to alleviate electricity, logistics and crime woes. We should ensure that these partnerships and the structures that go with them are retained to promote a country-of-choice strategy that ensures that the people we need to build our economy are happy to come here, to the extent that they are not averse to potentially making this country their home.