The London Speaker Bureau is delighted to announce the opening of its latest office, in South Africa.
Managed by Lucinda Swan, with Joerg Nawrocki as a new consultant, The London Speaker Bureau Africa is based in Cape Town. The boom in commodities and the increase in oil prices have led to Africa becoming increasingly important to the world economy. Leaders in African countries are looking to best practice in governance and management from around the globe in order to grow their economies and build civil society most effectively. We represent a number of leading African speakers:
Mamphela Ramphele is executive chair of Circle Capital Ventures, a Cape town-based black economic empowerment company, a former managing director of the World Bank and former vice chancellor of Cape Town University, the first woman to hold this post.
Nkosinathi Biko is the son of Steve Biko, leader of the black consciousness movement of the 1960s and 1970s, who was killed while in police custody in 1977, when Nkosinathi, his eldest son, was six. Nkosinathi Biko is now CEO of the Steve Biko Foundation, which seeks to promote dialogue about government policy, culture and race relations; and he is also on the board of a number of non-profit organisations seeking solutions to questions such as how best to create affordable housing and encourage local entrepreneurs.
FW de Klerk engineered the end of apartheid and negotiated the peaceful handover of power to democratic rule and the African National Congress. De Klerk shared the Nobel Peace prize with Nelson Mandela in 1993 and was one of the deputy presidents of South Africa during Mandela's presidency until 1996.