EXTRACT | Should we go? To emigrate or not: 21 voices speak their mind

25 years after democracy, as optimism about the country’s future ebb sand flows, new impetus has been given to the emigration debate. In "Should we go? To emigrate or not", edited by Alet Law, 21 of South Africa’s foremost thought leaders such as Piet Croucamp, Dana Snyman, Melanie Verwoerd and Jonathan Jansen grapple with this question. Here is an extract from the chapter written by Phumzile van Damme titled 'When my heart says go, my head says stay'.