SOUTH AFRICA: ACKNOWLEDGING THE

FAILURES; EXPLORING THE TRAJECTORY

TOWARDS A BETTER POLITICAL AND
ECONOMIC FUTURE.

Date: 29 July 2021

Time: 17:30 - 19:30 PM CAT

FORTHCOMING
ONLINE POLICY
DIALOGUE FORUM
ON ZOOM Convener/Moderator Panelist Panelist Panelist
Ibbo Mandaza Adam Habib Thabi Leoka Associate Professor,
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Sapes Trust Policy Dialogue Director, SOAS; formerly VC,
Renowned South Afri- University of Johannes-
Wits University
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Discussant Discussant Discussant Discussant Discussant

Pali Lehohla Nomboniso Gasa Vasu Gounden Saths Cooper Eddy Maloka
Former Statistician-General Snr Associate Researcher: Executive Director, African Pan-African Psychology Chief Executive Officer of
of South Africa. Centre for Law & Society Centre for the Constructive Union African Peer Review
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Concept Note
The objective here is less to focus on the events – the incarceration of former president Jacob Zuma on 7 July 2021 and the alleged insurrectionist
agenda that sparked almost a week-long orgy of destruction, looting, mayhem and deaths of over 300 citizens, before it was stemmed by Friday,
16 July; than on an analysis of the political economy of South Africa, acknowledging the failures as well as the causes thereof, the nature of the
post-apartheid state, and an audit of the party of liberation, its culpability as well as the prospects of regeneration; and, equally important, to
raise insights and issues that inform a possible trajectory for a South Africa with the enormous (human and natural resources) capacity and poten-
tial to institute an economic revolution through a focus on industrialization and manufacturing, reform of the social (especially basic education
and health) sectors, addressing the unemployment curse; and therefore confronting and dismantling the racial and socio-economic architecture of
apartheid, resolving the National Question and enhancing the goal of a New South Africa.