Africa’s Tomorrow: A platform of hope and potential

An exclusive live journalism webinar supported by Hanns Seidel Foundation, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency and the Government of the Netherlands

About The Webinar

With a special introductory statement by President Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa join Daily Maverick Associate Editor Ferial Haffajee in conversation with Jakkie Cilliers, Head of African Futures and Innovation, Ms Nardos Bekele-Thomas, Chief Executive Officer, AUDA-NEPAD, and Prof. Jonathan Moyer, Director of Frederick S. Pardee Centre for International Futures, University of Denver.

The Institute for Security Studies (ISS) strives to enable Africa to overcome its human security challenges and achieve its vast development potential. An enterprising data platform leads the way in helping Africa overcome its human security challenges and achieve its vast development potential. Integrated forecasts cover 14 sectors for all countries and regions, following the African Union’s Agenda 2063 timeline. Insights are grounded in academic literature and use benchmarks to map ambitious but realistic forecasts that are regularly updated.

The initiative builds on over a decade of data analysis by the ISS African Futures and Innovation Unit. Using the International Futures (IFs) modelling platform, the website is a significant public resource for evidence-based policy making, capacity building and good governance. Visit the site at futures.issafrica.org.

This webinar is co-hosted by the ISS and Daily Maverick.

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Bill Browder is the founder and CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, which was the investment adviser to the largest foreign investment fund in Russia until 2005, when he was denied entry to the country and declared a “threat to national security” as a result of his battle against corporate corruption. After his expulsion, the Russian authorities raided his offices, seized Hermitage Fund’s investment companies and used them to steal $230-million of taxes that the companies had previously paid. When Browder’s lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, investigated the crime, he was arrested by the same officers he implicated, tortured for 358 days, and killed in custody at the age of 37 in November 2009. Since then, Browder has spent years fighting for justice for Magnitsky. The Russian government exonerated and even promoted some of the officials involved, so Browder took the case to the US, where his campaigning led to the US Congress adopting the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act in 2012, which imposed visa sanctions and asset freezes on those involved in his detention, ill-treatment and death (as well as in other human rights abuses). This law was the first time the US sanctioned Russia in 35 years and became the model for all subsequent US sanctions against Russia. Browder is currently working to have similar legislation passed in Magnitsky’s name across the European Union. Ajay, Atul and Rajesh Gupta and Salim Essa were all sanctioned under the Magnitsky Act in October 2019.

Ferial Haffajee

Daily Maverick Associate Editor
Dr Jakkie Cilliers

Head of African Futures and Innovation
Prof. Jonathan Moyer

Director of Frederick S. Pardee Centre for International Futures, University of Denver
Ms Nardos Bekele-Thomas

Chief Executive Officer, AUDA-NEPAD