Background
He is the younger brother of former President Thabo Mbeki and son of African National Congress leader Govan Mbeki.
He is the younger brother of former President Thabo Mbeki and son of African National Congress leader Govan Mbeki.
Harvard University.
He has been a frequent critic of President Mbeki. Moeletsi Goduka Mbeki has a strong background in journalism, with a resume that includes a Harvard University Nieman Fellowship and time at the British Broadcasting Corporation. He often acts as a political commentator in South Africa, and is the author of a paper titled Perpetuating Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa, published on 30 June 2005 by International Policy Network. He was a media consultant for the African National Congress in the "90s, and is currently the chairman of Endemol South Africa, a television production house, and KMM Review Publishing and Africa.
He has also been director of Comazar, which rehabilitates and grants concessions to railway networks in Africa.
Moeletsi generated some controversy when he said that Africa was governed better under colonial rule than today. (See October 2007 in rail transport).
In October 2006 Moeletsi Mbeki applied for an order to have Jonathan Moyo jailed the next time he visits South Africa. He has been known to oppose certain Black Economic Empowerment (Bachelor of Electrical Engineering) deals in South Africa and has written articles for the Cato Institute, a United States of America-based libertarian think tank.
In 2003 it was revealed by John Perlman that the SABC had blacklisted a lot of political commentators and that Moeletsi was one of them, possible due to his political views. He has written many articles about the political and economic situation in South Africa, Zimbabwe and the rest of Africa. Overview of his opinions.
With his book “Architects of Poverty: Why African Capitalism Needs Changing” in 2009 he has triggered a debate about governance, ethics and moral values in African governance processes. Moeletsi Mbeki: Architects of Poverty: Why African Capitalism Needs Changing, Central Books, April 2009.
He is a member of the executive council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) which is based in London.