A snake in the room

--:--
We should be terrified.
We are sitting with a snake in the room; we are pretending that it's not there.
That is the blunt assessment of South Africa by leading thinker and communications expert Songezo Zibi founder of the think-tank The Rivonia Circle.
He says in a year when the ANC has its elective conference there is very little governing that goes on.
He believes to fix South Africa a fundamental redesign of politics is needed and it's high time the top fifty or so business leaders got into a room to force the pace.
14 Dec 2022 English South Africa Business News · Politics

Other recent episodes

SA needs a logistics fix

Hennie Heymans, CEO of DHL South Africa, shares insights into the crucial challenges and transformative opportunities in the local logistics sector.
14 Nov 26 min

The low-cost way of ‘creating large employment’

A tech company preparing to open branches in Europe, localised businesses, where ‘this obsession with scale can be a constraint’, and the magic of blended financing – SA SME Fund CEO Ketso Gordhan on what’s happening in the small business sphere, and how government can get more economic bang for…
4 Oct 23 min

Sentiment is improving under the GNU – JSE CEO

The country is starting to screen well; our equity market has seen record inflows since the election. Many of the parties now at the governing table have a ‘let's get things done’ mentality, which tends to compound and snowball and create a sort of infectious energy. But we can't be…
20 Sep 23 min