National Dialogue Debate – 23 February 2021

<p>This is ITI's first podcast on the National Dialogue discussion. Prof Nick Binedell, the founding director of the Gordon Institute of Business Science facilitated this discussion.</p> <p>The proposal for a new ‘national dialogue’ was put on the table by the In Transformation Initiative, Democracy Works Foundation, Hanns Seidel Foundation, Kgalema Motlanthe Foundation and Gordon Institute of Business Science.</p> <p>Due to Covid-19, as well as the mismanagement and stagnation that were present well before the pandemic, South Africa has shed millions of jobs. Poverty has increased dramatically and there is a clear failure of leadership at various levels – in politics, business and civil society.</p> <p>The debate addressed many issues, such as the question as to whether or not the people in the middle ground, who have the wellbeing of South</p> <p>Africa at heart, will be able to forge a new consensus around how to fix the country.</p> <p>These were closed discussions, held virtually where over 70 of the country’s most prominent and influential thinkers and policymakers gave their inputs about the matters at hand.</p> <p>In this podcast, the views of Mavuso Msimang, Gill Marcus and Mmusi Maimane are shared.</p>