GGA’s Alain Tschudin: Providing context on SA’s major flashpoints – history helps with solutions to crumbling municipalities, EWC

LONDON — Dr Alain Tschudin is my kind of interviewee. An academic with a career in professional research, he is also an author so like most wordsmiths, his conversation flows easily. A PhD from Cambridge, he is the executive director of Good Governance Africa, a not-for-profit which aims to help unlock Africa's potential by praising those doing right – and exposing the corrupt. In this interview he addresses South Africa's two big flashpoints – the destruction of rural municipalities and the ANC's policy of land Expropriation Without Compensation (EWC). – Alec Hogg

This is The Rational Perspective, I'm Alec Hogg. In this episode, Dr Alain Tschudin, a measured optimist on SA. Good Governance Africa has big ambitions. Its intention is to set up centres across the African continent to monitor governance across the continent – using a carrot and stick approach by shouting out malfeasance and praising role models. It's a lofty goal. But since opening its first centre in Johannesburg in 2012, the independent non profit has made huge strides. This year it opened its fourth office, in Harare, with the others in Accra and Lagos. GGA bases its opinions on facts. That makes it an invaluable source for those wanting to understand the back story of the continent and, more specifically, South Africa. This week I was invited to a briefing for its board members and contributors at the IOD in London, I caught up with the executive director. As per usual, I started by asking my guest to introduce himself.

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