Trevor Manuel has A Few Regrets: South Africa & the Paradox of Leadership

Описание: Ever wonder if Trevor Manuel - one of the world’s longest serving finance ministers, and arguably South Africa’s best - has any regrets?

Our opening #africaintheworld2025 conversation, moderated by Francis Daniels, asks these and other difficult questions, like: What really was the cost of South Africa's 1994 “miracle”? Were we so bright-eyed and bushy-tailed that we built without a firm foundation? And how, from such a mountaintop, did we descend into this gorge?

But it’s not all looking back. Trevor, later joined by Dare Okoudjou (founder of Onafriq), and Francis offer a sharp critique of the present, in South Africa and across the continent. They examine, for example, the insufficient transformation of education, the growing impatience of Gen Z, the paradox of South Africa’s constitution - one of the best in the world - but observed in its breach, the difficulties (read: near impossibilities) of South African visas, and the loop of debt servicing that keeps most African countries spending more on yesterday than today.

A clear-eyed conversation, centered around political leadership and its possibitlies, but also its failures.

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