Moeletsi Mbeki

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Moeletsi 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. He is the author of Perpetuating Poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, published on 30 June by International Policy Network and a political commentator in South Africa. He is the brother of President Thabo Mbeki and son of Govan Mbeki, another politician. He has been called the President's most strident critic over the past couple of years. He has a strong background in journalism, with a resume that includes a Nieman Fellowship and time at the BBC. 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^[1] and ^[2]Africa.^[3]

In 2006 it was revealed, by John Perlman, that the SABC had blacklisted a lot of political commentators and was Moeletsi one of them, probably due to his views who are considerable more to the right of the President and he created some controversy when he said that Africa was governed better under colonial rule than today ^[4]. He has also been director of Comazar, which rehabilitates and grants concessions to railway networks in Africa. (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 opposes Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) deals in South Africa which is where powerful connected blacks are granted shares in white-owned business enterprises. ^[5] and has written articles for the respected libertarian think tank Cato Institute ^[6].

He has written many articles about the situation in South Africa, Zimbabwe-Rhodesia and the rest of Africa. Critics of his brother and the ANC regime on the right have remarked that Moeletsi would have been better president of the two.