Moeletsi Mbeki

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Mbeki in Leiden (2007)

Moeletsi Goduka Mbeki (born November 9, 1945 in Idutywa , Cape Province ) is a South African media manager and business journalist . He is the younger brother of the former ANC and State President Thabo Mbeki and son of Govan Mbeki , a leading member of the African National Congress (ANC) and companion of Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu .

Life

Moeletsi Mbeki in Amsterdam 1978

Moeletsi Mbeki, a member of the Mfengu (Fingo), was born in 1944 or 1945 as the son of the politically very committed teacher couple Epainette and Govan Mbeki (1910-2001). His father also worked as a journalist and was a senior member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the ANC, both of which were banned in 1960. In 1964, his father was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia Trial , which he served on Robben Island until his release in November 1987 . After both parents were arrested, he lived with his two brothers and his sister with relatives and friends. He graduated from the University of Warwick and earned a master's degree in engineering .

He initially worked as a journalist in Zimbabwe , Algeria , Tanzania , the USA and Great Britain . In 1986/87 he was public relations officer for the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa . Since 1990 he has been media advisor to the ANC and press officer of the Congress of South African Trade Unions . He is Deputy Director of the South African Institute for International Affairs (SAIIA).

Journalistic activity

Mbeki writes for the New Statesman . He has published several books on the politics of southern Africa and is considered a political observer of Africa. In 2008, he criticized the meeting between African Union leaders and Robert Mugabe as a sign of disintegration and incompetence.

In 2009 he sparked a broad debate with his book Architects of Poverty: Why African Capitalism Needs Changing . In it, he describes how African elites view their states as gold donkeys, they emulate the lifestyle of the colonial rulers , lead a life in obscene luxury and have no sense of responsibility for their countries and are not interested in their development. The consequence is a neglect of the well-being of the population, which is associated with corruption, capital flight and, ultimately, brutal crackdown on critical voices. He warns of the “parasitic political elites”, which are gradually getting to the core of the democratic model of South Africa.

Mbeki is very critical of the ANC's policy of Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment and sees it as an intellectual product of white capital that only a small class of black capitalists is promoting. He clearly shows the dangers of the wrong political trade that makes the largest part of the population still poor and a small new black elite unimaginably rich. In a speech to the Cape Town press club on the crisis of the South African leadership in July 2011, Mbeki attested to the ANC that it was no longer responsible for the future of the country and called Jacob Zuma and Julius Malema a “singing and dancing brigade”. The next day, Zuma published a statement in which it was mentioned of unfounded and disappointing allegations that would testify to a deep bitterness. Zuma's spokesman and a spokesman for the ANC certified Mbeki's lack of respect, cheek and dishonesty.

In a speech in September 2011, Mbeki called on the Democratic Alliance to support Julius Malema and the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) in their call for economic freedom. After the expulsion of Malema from the ANC and the resistance of the ANCYL in November 2011, Mbeki supported the president of the youth league; he spoke of Malema asking the right questions and denounced the lavish lifestyles of leading South African politicians.

In 2011 he published “Advocates for Change”, the implementation of which was supported by the Hanns Seidel Foundation , in which he recorded concrete solutions.

Works

  • Moeletsi Mbeki: Architects of Poverty: Why African Capitalism Needs Changing. Central Books, 2009, ISBN 1-77010-161-6 .
  • Moeletsi Mbeki: Advocates for change: How to overcome Africa's challenges. Picador Africa, 2011, ISBN 978-1-77010-120-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Profile of Mbeki ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Who's Who Southern Africa (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.whoswhosa.co.za
  2. ↑ a b The heads of state are incapable , Interview with Mbeki in the Frankfurter Rundschau of July 2, 2008, accessed on November 20, 2011
  3. ↑ Our political elite would have had enough time . Interview with Mbeki in Die Welt on August 8, 2011, accessed on November 20, 2011.
  4. ^ Moeletsi Mbeki: Architects of Poverty. 2009, p. 174
  5. ↑ Moeletsi Mbeki: The oligarchs are still in power. Afrika Süd, the specialist journal on southern Africa, volume 38, No. 5, October / November 2009
  6. ↑ Article Moeletsi Mbeki's criticism of Zuma disrespectful and disingenuous: ANC . In: Times Live of July 27, 2011, accessed November 20, 2011.
  7. ↑ Moeletsi Mbeki allegations are baseless . Published on the website of the President of South Africa on July 27, 2011, accessed on November 20, 2011.
  8. ↑ Article Maharaj: Moeletsi Mbeki is wrong about Zuma . In: Mail & Guardian of July 27, 2011, accessed November 20, 2011 (English).
  9. ↑ Article Moeletsi Mbeki calls for DA to support ANCYL . In: The Sowetan of September 6, 2011, accessed November 20, 2011.
  10. ↑ Article Mbeki backs ANCYL firebrand . In: Sunday Tribune of November 19, 2011, accessed November 20, 2011.
  11. ↑ The fear of those in power of too much education . The world of August 8, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Mbeki, Moeletsi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mbeki, Moeletsi Goduka (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African media manager and business journalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Idutywa , Cape Province