page_title: Moeletsi Mbeki
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Moeletsi Mbeki / Career
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Eredoctoraat sociale wetenschappen Universiteit van Amsterdam voor in Zuid Afrika gevangen zittende vrijheidsstrijder Govan Mbeki; zoon Mbeki ontvangt onderscheiding vaderEnglish: Honorary doctorate (social sciences) from University of Amsterdam to Govan Mbeki (1978). As Govan Mbeki was in prison, the doctorate was handed to his son Moeletsi Mbeki.
context_page_description: Moeletsi Goduka Mbeki is a political economist and the deputy chairman of the South African Institute of International Affairs, an independent think tank based at the University of the Witwatersrand, and is a political analyst for Nedcor Bank. He is a member of the executive council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies which is based in London. He is the younger brother of former President Thabo Mbeki and son of ANC leader Govan Mbeki. He has been a frequent critic of President Mbeki.
context_section_description: Moeletsi Goduka Mbeki has a background in journalism, with a resume that includes a Harvard University Nieman Fellowship and time at the BBC. 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 ANC in the '90s, and is currently the chairman of Endemol South Africa, a TV 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.
  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. 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 (BEE) deals in South Africa and has written articles for the Cato Institute, a USA-based libertarian think tank.
  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.
caption: Moeletsi Mbeki receives Govan Mbeki's honorary doctorate (Amsterdam, 1978)
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