NMMU Business School announces roll-out of Strategic Conversations in East London & Border Kei market

Port Elizabeth, 8 November 2012 - NMMU Business School’s flagship engagement event series, Strategic Conversations, débuts in East London this week.

The event has already attracted a high-profile response from private and public sector stakeholders from the Buffalo City and Border Kei regions including Aspen Pharmacare, ABSA, FNB, Capitec Bank, Old Mutual, Lear Corporation, Amathole District Municipality, IDZ, ECDC and The Road Accident Fund said NMMU Business School Director Professor Steve Burgess.

In the first Strategic Conversations event for East London, entitled Hope for Africa, Graduate School Director Prof Kobus Jonker will investigate whether African countries are unsuccessful because they fail to integrate economic and business objectives with Africa’s social challenges.

Prof Jonker will unveil and discuss the prospects of Africa as a continent and reveal an overlooked African economy that has achieved astonishing success by integrating social and economic objectives in a national development model.

“We are very excited to launch Strategic Conversations,” said Shalene Sogoni, NMMU Business School East London and Border Kei Office representative.

“This planned series of public events and debates focus on critical and topical issues affecting our stakeholders. The events are pitched at senior organisational leaders and executives”.

“We plan to stimulate critical thought and intellectual debate amongst leaders, empowering them with knowledge, alternative views and insight to ensure they take informed decisions with regards to current issues that will affect their organisations,” she said.