South Africa doesn’t need a municipal election popularity contest; it needs a survival strategy. So says merchant banker Mark Barnes in conversation with Financial Mail journalist Tim Cohen and former Goldman Sachs Partner and now adjunct professor at Columbia Business School Colin Coleman.
In this lively discussion, we talk about the November 4 elections not as a political event but as an opportunity to remedy municipal bankruptcy. Perhaps the answer is not a new centrist party but to create an enduring “calibrated equilibrium” between the ANC and the DA, says Coleman.
The ANC and the Bokke: each snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
Podcast Episode · ListenUP! · August 25 · 25m
