đź”’ Boardroom Talk: RW Johnson at his brilliant best on the evolution of SA’s cocked-up foreign policy

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By Alec Hogg

When RW Johnson delivered a speech on South Africa’s post-1994 foreign relations to the SA Institute of International Affairs last Monday, he was inundated with requests for copies of the address. 

The former Oxford Don has formalised his thoughts by writing two exceptional op-eds, the first of which you can read below. The other one will appear in this newsletter tomorrow. They will also be published in the Premium section of BizNews.com. I hope you have a read. As our tagline says – Get Context. Know More. 

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Ahead of the November 2021 Local Government elections, Geordin Hill-Lewis, the DA’s mayoral candidate for Cape Town, campaigned to end electricity outages within three years. Now installed as mayor, the energetic 36-year-old says he is about to unveil the most significant step in achieving that goal for a city that consumes 2 200MW during peak demand. In this wide-ranging interview with Alec Hogg of BizNews, GHL says, “we’re crossing the t’s and dotting the i’s” on an agreement that will bring an additional 500MW supply into the city’s power grid. He anticipates making a formal announcement before the end of March.

More for you to read today:

  • A reminder that I’ll be unpacking the details of the 2023 Budget at 7 pm tomorrow (Wed). Click here to signup for the interactive webinar. 
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