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Why the Fourie Got a Family Press Office, Even if You’ve Never Heard of Them

The Fourie are not celebrities. Nobody is following them around Sandton hoping for photographs, there is no reality television programme carrying their surname and, if everything goes according to plan, you may never read about them in tomorrow’s newspaper. They are simply a successful private family with a family business, several investments, properties, children studying abroad, philanthropic interests and enough accumulated wealth to make privacy increasingly valuable.

The New Diplomacy of Reputation: South Africa’s Next Move

There will come another moment when South Africa stands before the international community and asks the world to care about human rights. It may concern civilians caught in conflict, racial discrimination, international law, inequality, the conduct of another state or the dignity of people whose rights South Africa believes have been violated. When that moment comes, the most important question may not be whether South Africa’s argument is legally correct or morally justified. It may be whether the country still possesses sufficient credibility for its intervention to carry the authority it intends. That is the reputational question now confronting Pretoria.

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