Moeletsi Mbeki
Moeletsi Mbeki (* November 30, 1944 or 1945) is a South African media manager and business journalist. He is the younger brother of former ANC president Thabo Mbeki and son of Govan Mbeki and, a leading member of the African National Congress ( ANC) and companion of Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu.
Life
Moeletsi Mbeki, a member of the Mfengu ( Fingo ), was born on June 18, 1942 in Idutywa in the Transkei, a later "Homeland", the son of the politically very dedicated teachers and Govan Mbeki pair Epainette ( 1910-2001 ). His father worked as a journalist and was a leading figure in the South African Communist Party ( SACP ) and the ANC, both of which were banned. 1963 his father in the Rivonia Trial, was sentenced to life imprisonment, which he served until his release in November 1987 on Robben Iceland. After the arrest of both parents, he lived with his two brothers and his sister with relatives and friends. He studied at the University of Warwick and took a Master's degree in engineering sciences.
He worked as a journalist in Zimbabwe, Algeria, Tanzania, the USA and Great Britain. 1986/87 he was a public speaker of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa. Since 1990 he is a 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 of International Affairs ( SAIIA ).
Journalistic activity
Mbeki writes for the New Statesman. He has written several books about the politics of southern Africa and is published as a political observer Africa. In 2008, he criticized the meeting of African head of state of the African Union with Robert Mugabe as a sign of decay and incapacity.
In 2009 he came with his book Architects of Poverty: Why African Capitalism Needs Changing ( The architects of poverty) a broad debate on. In it, he describes how the African elites regarded their states as a cash cow, they aped the lifestyle of the colonial masters, led a life of obscene luxury while have no sense of responsibility for their countries and did not care for their development. The result is a neglect of the welfare of the people, which was linked to corruption, capital flight, and ultimately a brutality against critical voices. He warns of the " parasitic political elites " that gradually the democratic model of South Africa went to the substance.
He is of the Black Economic Empowerment policy of the ANC was very critical and sees it as a brainchild of white capital, which promotes only a small class of black capitalists. It distinguishes clearly the danger of the wrong political action that the majority of the population continues to make poor and a small new black elite unimaginably rich. In a speech to the Cape Town Press Club on the crisis the South African leadership in July 2011, Mbeki attested to the ANC not to be responsible for the future of the country, and called Jacob Zuma and Julius Malema a " song and dance brigade ". The next day, Zuma has published an explanation, was that of non-objective and disappointing insinuations the speech that bore witness to a deep bitterness. Zuma's spokesman and a spokesman for the ANC certified Mbeki disrespect, insolence and dishonesty.
In September 2011, Mbeki urged the Democratic Alliance in a speech at Julius Malema and the ANC Youth League to support the ( ANCYL ) in its call for economic freedom. After the exclusion of Malema from the ANC and the resistance of the ANCYL in November 2011 Mbeki supported the president of the Youth League; he has said that Malema ask the right questions, and denounced the lavish lifestyle leading South African politicians.
In 2011 he published " Advocates for Change" (lawyers of change ), its implementation was supported by the Hanns Seidel Foundation, in which he recorded with concrete solutions.
Works
- Moeletsi Mbeki: Architects of Poverty: Why African Capitalism Needs Changing. Central Books, 2009, ISBN 1770101616
- Moeletsi Mbeki: Advocates for change: How to overcome Africa's challenges. Picador Africa, 2011 ISBN 978-1-77010-120-3