The Long view: Getting Behind the Horror of South Africa’s Headlines

THE LONG VIEW: GETTING BEHIND THE HORROR OF SOUTH AFRICA’S HEADLINES

JP Landman, political-economic analyst

Thursday 26 January

5.00 pm

COURSE FEES R110

This lecturer will be introduced by well-known television presenter Ruda Landman. The lecture will provide an analysis of economic and political trends shaping South Africa, focusing on issues derived from these trends. The ANC’s elective conference will be behind us and it will be approximately eighteen months before the next election and one month before the 2023 budget. It is the opportune time to take stock of where we are.

Wine, grape juice and snacks will be served after this lecture.

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JP Landman is a self-employed analyst on political-economic trends. He focuses on trends in politics, economics and demography. He has been a consultant to Nedbank Private Wealth since 2000.

In 2006 he was appointed as a member of then Pres Mbeki’s Economic Advisory Panel; in 2015 he was appointed by the President as a member of the National Planning Commission; and he is a non-executive director of the JSE listed food company Libstar.

In 2013 he was elected a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Centre for International Scholars in Washington DC and he spent four months in the US.

He has a BA LLB from Stellenbosch University (1978), studied Economics at Harvard (1998 and again in 2005), and obtained a MPhil in Future Studies (cum laude) from Stellenbosch (2003). In 2009 he completed a course at Oxford University Continuing Education on the economies of the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India & China).