Everything published, in one index.

Institutions that outlive their founders

Lecture and Q&A on succession design in African public, private and philanthropic institutions.

Africa–China contracting: closing the expectation gap

Closed roundtable with counterpart negotiators on relationship maintenance structures inside long-horizon agreements.

Reading power where it is exercised

Keynote on veto-point mapping for investors and the resolution problem in continental risk analysis.

Open Book Festival — memoir and the archive

Panel appearance on writing political memoir in a country still negotiating what it is willing to remember.

What Light Cannot Touch — Johannesburg launch

First public reading from the memoir, followed by a conversation on memory, the archive and the cost of the record.

The memoir in conversation: writing close to the subject

A long-form conversation on proximity, loyalty and the ethics of writing about people who trusted you with a difficult hour.

What the record leaves out

Every official archive is a decision about what a country is willing to remember. The memoir begins where that decision ends.

7 min read

Two political grammars: contracting between Africa and China

Panel remarks on why bilateral partnerships fail over expectation design rather than capital, and what a functional review structure looks like.

Reading power where it is actually exercised

Political risk analysis keeps failing in African markets for a simple reason: it measures the announcement rather than the decision.

6 min read

Veto points: political risk beyond the podium

A working method for mapping where a decision can quietly be delayed — and how to price that delay before it reaches a board paper.

Two political grammars

Africa–China partnerships fail less often over money than over an unexamined difference in how each side reads an agreement.

8 min read

Institutions that outlive their founders

On succession as a design problem rather than a personnel problem, and the boring work that carries organisations through hard transitions.

On writing close to the subject

Notes on proximity, loyalty and the problem of writing about people who were kind to you.

5 min read

Sovereign capital and public purpose

Short-format remarks on holding long-horizon development finance and commercial discipline in the same frame.

Institutions that outlive their founders

Governance is not a set of documents. It is the question of what happens on the day the person everyone deferred to is no longer in the room.

6 min read

Portrait and press gallery

High-resolution portraits and book photography cleared for editorial use, with credit and usage notes.

What Light Cannot Touch

A memoir written from the rooms where power and memory met — including years as an aide to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Signed first edition, 2026.

High-resolution press photography

Editorial-cleared portraits and book photography with credit and usage notes.

Speaker pack

Topics, formats, technical requirements and biography for programme committees.

Events programme

Launches, keynotes, festivals and roundtables — upcoming and past.

Media centre

Interviews, lectures, panels, broadcasts and galleries in one searchable archive.

Contact and enquiries

Advisory, speaking, media and rights enquiries — routed and answered within three business days.

Press kit — biographies, photography and contact

Short and long biographies, high-resolution photography, interview topics and press contact details.

Speaking — keynotes, formats and booking

Keynote topics, session formats, audience fit and everything a programme committee needs to make a decision.

Work — advisory, boards and organisations

Strategic advisory practice, board and council appointments, and the institutions the work runs through.

The Author — biography and timeline

Full biography, career timeline and the values underneath the work: from Kuruman to the Office of the Premier.