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South Africa’s cabinet has reappointed Dudu Myeni as the chairwoman of the loss-making national airline, it said on Friday. The cabinet said Myeni, an ally of President Jacob Zuma, was appointed alongside 11 other board members to the board of South African Airways (SAA). The new team will meet the Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan who would provide direction from a shareholder perspective,...

About ALI Fellow Trevor Ncube: Trevor Ncube is Chairman of Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) based in Zimbabwe, a company he co-founded 19 years ago. AMH owns four newspaper titles in Zimbabwe namely NewsDay (daily), Southern Eye (regional daily), The Zimbabwe Independent (business weekly) and The Standard (Sunday). Ncube is also controlling shareholder and Executive Deputy Chairman of the Mail & Gu...

Our Former Deputy President Ms Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka shared her views on challenges facing women and children in Africa. On Monday, the 22nd August 2016 we had our second ALI Leadership Initiative Dialogue in the heart of Sandton at Barloworld. For this series, we hosted none other than the former South African Deputy President and current United Nations Under-Secretary-General, who is...

ALI Class VI Tshelela Fellow Makhosi Khoza and parliament’s ad hoc committee on the Public Protector met on Wednesday to choose its preferred candidate for the public protector position, before submitting its recommendation to the National Assembly. See Makhosi Khoza’s biography ...

Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan is taking on Justice Malala, the political commentator and Financial Mail columnist, on Wednesday August 24 in the Cape Chamber of Commerce & Industry’s second Rumble in the Urban Jungle event this year. Ray Hartley live-blogged the action here: http://bit.ly/2bC2ROF ...

Adrian Enthoven delivered a speech at the annual Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert Lecture at the University of Stellenbosch on 4 August 2016. In his words “The speech is an attempt to make a case for a much more vocal and active political “centre” in our society and what the focus of this centre might look like…” You can read the full speech here or alternatively you can watch it ...

On the 27th July 2016, ALI launched the ALI Leadership Initiative Dialogue by hosting former President of the Republic South Africa, Kgalema Motlanthe. This first event of the series was moderated by Ralph Freese from Class 1, and boasted 25 fellows in attendance at the Villa Acadia in Parktown. The theme for the evening was‘The Challenge of Leadership’ and what we need to do to face it ...

Anne Welsh McNulty and the Aspen Institute have announced the 2016 John P. McNulty Prize Laureates. We are proud and honoured to have one of ALISA’s fellow of Class VI, Andrew Zaloumis. Andrew Zaloumis is the CEO of the iSimangaliso Wetland Park; deemed and selected as a worthy candidate for the Prize. Twelve ALI SA fellows where present in the gallery when Andrew’s name was announced; Adr...

Ferial Haffajee examines South Africa’s history and present in light of the provocative question, ‘What if there were no whites in South Africa?’, as she traverses the rocky terrain of race in our country and grapples with what it means to be here The #RhodesMustFall movement used the colonial-era statue of Cecil John Rhodes to focus on the incomplete journey of transformation at the...

Between some great local non-fiction escapist offerings due on the shelves this holiday season, South Africans hoping to catch up on political non-fiction are in for a dose of bleak and brutal reality for ’tis the season of deep discontent. A new addition to the growing pile of dystopian recent writings is columnist and political analyst, Justice Malala’s book, an angry, uncompromising...

iSimangaliso Wetland Park CEO & ALI Fellow Andrew Zaloumis named WWF SA Living Planet 2015 Award Winner In a powerful recognition of his role in conservation and sustainable development, Andrew Zaloumis has been awarded the WWF SA Living Planet 2015 Award.   Andrew Zaloumis received the WWF SA Living Planet 2015 Award from WWF SA. Chairperson, Valli Moosa (left) and Chief Executive Offic...

Harambee Youth Project was announced as one of the finalists when Anne Welsh McNulty and the Aspen Institute announced the eighth annual John P. McNulty Prize laureates, a group of extraordinary leaders who bring the spirit of innovation that characterized their success in the private sector to address some of the most intractable problems facing our world today. The 2015 Laureates are making a si...

A powerful and thought provoking keynote by Crown Fellow Anand Giridharadas at the 2015 Aspen Action Forum Click here to read article ...

Mr. Leslie Maasdorp who is one of ALI Fellows was appointed as Vice President of the (BRICS) New Development Bank. The Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (Brics) New Development Bank (NDB) will be led by KV Kamath, who was appointed as its president, in Moscow, Russia on Wednesday. Prior to the appointment, Kamath served as chairperson of the second-largest Indian information technology...

Isaac Shongwe was the guest speaker at the FVZS Annual Lecture on the 22nd of April 2015, hosted by Stellenbosch University’s Frederik van Zyl Slabbert Institute for Student Leadership Development. The goal is to stimulate critical and challenging conversations about our country and continent. This is in line with the example set throughout his life by the late Dr Frederik Van Zyl Slabb...

Looking at SA today, one is forced to think about the events in Jerusalem many thousands of weeks ago, writes Rev Alan Storey What a week! What a tragically sad and terrifyingly disturbing week! A crucifying week! A crucifying week, where justice, truth, integrity and trust stand pierced – if they stand at all. Virtues that some people gave up their lives to protect are given up to protect some...

We are so proud to witness a real manifestation of our slogan, as one of our own makes a steady ascent from success to significance. Kuben Naidoo, who was the National Planning Committee’s Acting Head of Secretariat whilst part of the Class 8 ALI Fellowship (Mahube); has been promoted from the role of advisor to the Reserve Bank Governor, to Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank. Kuben assumes his...

The 2015 International Press Freedom Award was presented to Africa Leadership Initiative SA Fellow and journalist Ferial Haffajee by the Committee to Protect Journalists.Ferial Haffajee is the editor-in-chief of the local privately owned weekly City Press in South Africa. She was also the editor-in-chief of the weekly investigative paper the Mail & Guardian. Under her leadership, bo...