The Kgalema Motlanthe Foundation Drakensberg Inclusive Growth Forum Report 1 IN TIME, WE SHALL BE IN A POSITION TO BESTOW ON SOUTH AFRICA THE GREATEST POSSIBLE GIFT - A MORE HUMAN FACE. STEVE BIKO 2 3 THE KGALEMA MOTLANTHE FOUNDATION DRAKENSBERG INCLUSIVE GROWTH FORUM REPORT THE DRAKENSBERG CONVENTION CENTRE CHAMPAGNE SPORTS RESORT KWAZULU-NATAL 15 TO 17 JUNE 2018 4 5 MS SHAEERA KALLA 52 MR ROELF MEYER 94 CONTENTS Making space for youth participation A short epilogue MR ONKGOPOTSE JJ TABANE 53 PREMIER DAVID MAKHURA 96 The role of the media as the Fourth Estate Addressing exclusion in propelling the economy of ideas and CHAPTER 7 – WRAPPING IT UP 99 FROM THE PATRON OF THE 9 building social cohesion APPRECIATION BY PROFESSOR 100 KGALEMA MOTLANTHE FOUNDATION MR SIPHO MASEKO 55 FIROZ CACHALIA PREAMBLE TO THE 11 The digital economy – the great equaliser CONCLUDING REMARKS BY FORMER 101 INCLUSIVE GROWTH FORUM PROFESSOR TSHILIDZI MARWALA 58 PRESIDENT KGALEMA MOTLANTHE, INTRODUCTION TO THE 16 Transforming South Africa through PATRON OF THE KGALEMA MOTLANTHE KGALEMA MOTLANTHE FOUNDATION the Fourth Industrial Revolution FOUNDATION PREFACE 19 CHAPTER 4 – NATIONAL DEBATES 61 CHAPTER 8 – POST FORUM DELIBERATIONS 103 LAND 62 CHAPTER 1 – THE PROGRAMME AND 23 AND REFLECTIONS - SHAPING THE FUTURE STRUCTURE OF THE FORUM JOBS 65 RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE 104 CHAPTER 2 – KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY 27 YOUTH 66 KGALEMA MOTLANTHE FOUNDATION PRESIDENT CYRIL RAMAPHOSA THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 68 MESSAGES OF SUPPORT CHAPTER 3 – SETTING THE SCENE 33 STRENGTHENING THE STATE 70 MESSAGE FROM MR ROGER MACQUET 110 BISHOP MALUSI MPUMLWANA 34 MEDIA 72 Businessman and Concerned Citizen (Drakensberg Reflections: Secretary General, MESSAGE FROM MR IVOR ICHIKOWITZ 111 South African Council of Churches) CHAPTER 5 – DISCUSSION ON KEY ISSUES 75 Founder and Executive Chairman, – The South Africa We Pray For! PROFESSOR BEN TUROK AND 76 The Ichikowitz Family Foundation PROFESSOR IVOR CHIPKIN 36 PROFESSOR MCEBISI NDLETYANA Betrayal of Promise - Zuma’s valuable lesson, APPENDIX 1 PROFESSOR STAN SANGWENI 77 or what state capture has taught us about KGALEMA MOTLANTHE FOUNDATION 113 South Africa and the world – work of the PROFESSOR PAULUS ZULU 78 DRAKENSBERG INCLUSIVE GROWTH Developing a new morality normative Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI) FORUM PANELLISTS AND PRESENTERS MR MCEBISI JONAS 40 AMBASSADOR DR MARCUS CORNARO 79 APPENDIX 2 Impact of State capture – We are at Address by Head of the European Union our most vulnerable Delegation to South Africa FORUM ATTENDEES, GUESTS, 115 FOUNDATION STAFF AND SCRIBES MR BONANG MOHALE 44 PROFESSOR JEREMY RIDL 82 Role of Business and South African institutions A tale of two valleys – with a twist ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 118 DR PALI LEHOHLA 46 CHAPTER 6 – PULLING IT ALL TOGETHER 87 CONTACT 120 Statistics are telling a not-so-good story PROFESSOR WILLIAM GUMEDE 88 about South Africa Inclusive Growth: High-level Analysis of the Proceedings 6 7 FROM THE PATRON OF THE KGALEMA MOTLANTHE FOUNDATION This report of the inaugural Kgalema Motlanthe should sustain the hopes of the broadest cross-section of all the projects and activities with limited resources Drakensberg Inclusive Growth Forum held at the South Africans of all beliefs, political persuasions, ages and at their disposal. They are a small team consisting of Drakensberg Champagne Sport Resort from the 15th classes. Professor Firoz Cachalia, Dr Oscar van Heerden, to the 17th June 2018 is released during Human Rights Mr James Lekoma and Mrs Gugu Motlanthe duly month, almost on the eve of the impending National and This report would not have seen the light of day without assisted by a number of resourceful and indefatigable Provincial Elections scheduled to be held on the 8th May the input of Dr Khulu Mbatha, Professor William Gumede volunteers. To the volunteers I say: you are invaluable and 2019. who presented the summary of key issues that emerged at indispensable to the Kgalema Motlanthe Foundation. the Plenary Session of the Drakensberg Inclusive Growth This report went through various phases of gestation over Forum, and the tireless efforts of Professor Jeremy Ridl, We present this report to His Excellency President Cyril a period of nine months since the Drakensberg Inclusive assisted by Mr Roger Macquet, who had to pull it all Matamela Ramaphosa and all South Africans as a humble Growth Forum deliberated on numerous topical issues together out of the notes of several participants to draft contribution in the search for solutions directly needed in ranging from the State of Capture; the land question; the the full report. our economy and body politic of our country. fourth industrial revolution; the role of the media; the need to advance gender empowerment; the role of the Even though it was never intended for the Drakensberg Once again, thanks to one and all. youth; matters of the economy; and strengthening the Inclusive Growth Forum to take binding decisions on any State. of the themes that were discussed, this report contains Kgalema Motlanthe useful recommendations, as well as matters that would Patron In the interim, a number of Commissions of Inquiry were be debated further going forward either in roundtable established and set in motion to lay bare the extent of the discussions or smaller fora. rot within various government departments; State-Owned Enterprises, as well as among members of the Executive Many thanks go to the aforementioned drafters and and parliament. authors of this report, as well as, our main sponsors Mr Roger Macquet and The Ichikowitz Family Foundation. These developments serve as a sharp relief to the Special thanks to the Trustees of the Kgalema Motlanthe convening of the next Inclusive Growth Forum which Foundation who continue to outdo themselves to organise 8 9 PREAMBLE TO THE INCLUSIVE GROWTH FORUM WHY THE INCLUSIVE GROWTH FORUM? South Africa is at a crossroads. It may choose a low road, among our youth. Incredibly, South Africa emerged from that above all else, the Forum would inspire those present which takes it down a path of corruption, nepotism and an epoch of repression and brutality unparalleled in to devote their energies and creative abilities to bringing enrichment of the elite, leading to a failed State; or it the history of mankind and was welcomed back into an forth practical ideas that will propel our nation forward. may choose the high road, where leaders chart a course international community that celebrated its liberation. All towards social and economic upliftment, ultimately nations clamoured to play sport with us, do business with Guided by a common and sustained vision, the leading to the equal and caring society envisioned in the us, and tour our bountiful land – and they did. Then these programme was constructed to explore multi sectoral preamble to our Constitution. opportunities were lost in a decade of self-destruction. interventions to strengthen our democracy. To achieve this objective, is to dream. To hope. And to The Inclusive Growth Forum is the Kgalema Motlanthe The programme for the first day was to provide context put in place effective mechanisms to grow an economy Foundation’s contribution to the response required to and scene-setting, The rest of the weekend would focus that is vibrant and shared – in short, strategies to realise meet the challenges that face us; it is a space to be both on addressing the resultant challenges and developing inclusive economic growth and social cohesion. In this, critical and supportive, and importantly, to allow the implementable action plans. Ultimately, the Foundation there must be deep introspection by political leaders young voices of our future leaders to be heard. recognized the need to produce a public report - and the captains of industry and business, as both have considerations for the consolidation of an inclusive South contributed to taking South Africa to the lowest point in Background to the Inclusive Growth Forum Africa in all respects: politically, economically, socially and its short post-apartheid history. It is a time for leaders to In outlining the purpose of the Forum, Former President culturally. be accountable and to place country before party, people Kgalema Motlanthe explained that the genesis of the before profit. forum could be traced back to November 2016, a time As Business Leadership South Africa’s CEO Mr Bonang both different and remarkably similar to the present, with Mohale said “There is no time to celebrate”.1 The full extent and impact of State capture is only just change most acutely felt in the political realm. Former President Motlanthe implored participants– beginning to be revealed. It has left in its wake shattered “Moments that appear to usher in change require, most institutions, a broken economy, and the people of South Former President Motlanthe brought together a cross- urgently, the exploits that will ensure the reinforcing Africa disillusioned and hopeless. Perhaps the most bitter section of South African leaders to map a renewed vision of transformative impulses into firm foundations for an of the emotions they feel is disappointment, particularly and era for our republic. He expressed the sincere hope altered future”. 10 1 http://www.blsa.org.za/news-and-articles/media-statements/blsa-urges-president-cyril-ramaphosa-to-get- down-to-work/ 11 • Secondly, land reform – restitution, redistribution and security of tenure; and • Lastly, social cohesion and nation building. Keeping these themes in mind, joined with the broad topical items on the programme, the Forum consequently seeks to provide interventions and sustainable solutions that are rooted in the human rights ethos of the constitution and addressing the goals of the National Development Plan and the pressing triad of poverty, unemployment and inequality. In addressing many of these contemporary challenges – which are not unique to South Africa, as they have global resonances – it is evident that we require radical perspectives as we attempt to transform the political, historical and social landscape of South Africa.