Jones was living in London at the time and part of the crowd on Trafalgar Square where Mandela addressed “a sea of freezing cold South Africans who had gathered to hear the global icon speak on the balcony of the South African Embassy,” reads the introduction to the Homecoming Revolution story.
The legendary Madiba told the crowd: “I love you all so much, I want to put you in my pocket and take you home. “I had this thought of ‘what am I doing here’ and came back home a few years later,” says Angel Jones, CEO Homecoming Revolution.
Tessendorf says: “On the journey, as we privatized, we became a fully-fledged Pan African recruitment firm. We were worried we could lose some of the credibility of being this ‘feel good, the home-coming story’. “But if anything, we have gained credibility in the market because now clients are seeing that we are experienced successful businesswoman attracting top talent back to the continent and placing them with our clients.”
