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SUMMARY:South Africa today: growth\, employment\, reform\, and leadership
LOCATION:London School of Economics: In-person and online public event (MA
 R.2.04\, Marshall Building)
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday 23 June 2026 6.30pm - 8pmSpeakerAnn BernsteinChairProf
 essor Andrés VelascoJoin us for a discussion with Ann Bernstein on South 
 Africa’s political and economic future following the formation of the co
 untry’s new Government of National Unity (GNU) in July 2024. After the A
 frican National Congress\, in power since 1994\, failed to secure a parlia
 mentary majority\, the GNU came into office promising to accelerate reform
 \, restore state capacity and place South Africa on a higher growth path.T
 he conversation will explore why progress has remained slow\, with corrupt
 ion\, unemployment and institutional weakness continuing to undermine econ
 omic and social development. It will also focus on the mounting crisis in 
 Johannesburg\, where political instability\, financial mismanagement and d
 eclining service delivery have raised serious concerns about the future of
  South Africa’s largest city.Bernstein founded the Centre for Developmen
 t and Enterprise in 1995 and has become one of South Africa’s leading ad
 vocates for economic and institutional reform. She writes extensively on g
 rowth\, unemployment\, education\, governance and the role of business in 
 development\, and regularly convenes conversations across political and in
 stitutional divides on the country’s most pressing challenges. She will 
 reflect on the obstacles facing South Africa today\, what is required to g
 enerate growth and employment\, and whether the 2026 local government elec
 tions could provide an opportunity for political and economic renewal.Meet
  our speaker and chairAnn Bernstein (@annbernsteinSA) is the founder and e
 xecutive director of the Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE)\, Sou
 th Africa’s leading development think tank. She is the author of The Ca
 se for Business in Developing Economies (Penguin 2010)\, which received fa
 vourable reviews in South African media\, the Economist\, Financial Times 
 and Forbes and received the Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award
  for the book by the Atlas Foundation in Washington DC.Andrés Velasco (@A
 ndresVelasco) is Professor of Public Policy and Dean of the School of Publ
 ic Policy at LSE. In 2017-19 he was a member of the G20 Eminent Persons Gr
 oup. During 2015-16 he co-chaired the Global Panel on the Future of the Mu
 ltilateral Lending Institutions. In 2013-16 he was a member of the Global 
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