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Person of the Year: The Public Protector

Picture: Public Protector, Advocate Thuli Madonsela, courtesy GovernmentZA/Flickr. Dale T. McKinley - While most people in our country as well as across the globe would no doubt agree that the late Nelson Mandela was one of the outstanding persons of the 20th century, when it comes to 2013 here in South Africa there is another individual with Mandela-like qualities who deserves the accolade of ‘Person of the Year’ – Public Protector, Thulisile (Thuli) Madonsela. Whatever we might think of the more specific political and economic legacies bequeathed by the Mandela-era led...