Royal African Society & Global South Africans network

On the anniversary of South Africa Youth Day,

 

invites you, to a panel discussion:

'South Africa: Development and Democracy'

With highly acclaimed authors:

Alec Russell, author of After Mandela

Mark Gevisser, author of A Legacy of Liberation

Chair: Audrey Brown, presenter BBC World Briefing

6-8pm, 16 June, SOAS, Khalili Lecture Theatre, WC1H 0XG

South African leadership requires a skilful balancing of four interlinked imperatives: Political stability, Economic growth, Legitimacy and Redistribution.

 

How will the government of Jacob Zuma fare?

 

Alec Russell is World News Editor at the Financial Times, and former Johannesburg bureau chief. He was nominated by the Financial times for a Pulitzer Prize in 2008 and Britain's Foreign Correspondent of the Year for his reporting from South Africa in 2007.

 

Mark Gevisser is one of South Africa's leading journalists whose book Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred won the Sunday Times 2008 Alan Paton Prize and the NB Books 2008 Recht Malan Prize.

 

Please RSVP to palesa.madumo@omg.co.uk/ 0207 002 4095

 

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