GRIDLOCK: FACTORS STALLING THE SOUTH AFRICAN ECONOMY

In Gridlock, Moeletsi and Nobantu Mbeki explore the different dynamics of this reinvention and its chances of success or failure.

South Africa is immersed in a new phase in the long struggle to develop and consolidate democracy and to build an economy that is both sustainable and serves the needs of its entire people instead of the selfish interests of small elites, as has been the case over the past 360 years. MOELETSI MBEKI is a journalist, private business entrepreneur and political commentator as well as editor of Advocates for Change: How to Overcome Africa's Challenges (2011) and author of Architects of Poverty: Why African Capitalism Needs Changing (2009). NOBANTU MBEKI obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Economics and French Literature at Bryn Mawr College and her Master of Arts in Economics at Leeds University. The University of Manchester was where she obtained her doctoral degree in Economic Theory, and she is currently a Lecturer in Economics at the School of Economic and Business Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand.