Dr Lubisi announced as new chairperson of Morar
By Ntombi Nkosi
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Johannesburg - Former director-general in the Presidency Dr Cassius Lubisi has been appointed as the new chairperson of Morar Incorporated, a leading black-owned and managed national professional services firm.
Lubisi brings with him a wealth of knowledge and expertise in the financial sector.
He served as special adviser to former minister of education Professor Kader Asmal, as deputy director-general for general education in the then department of education, as superintendent-general of the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education, and recently as director-general in the Presidency and secretary of the Cabinet.
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how did he change South Africa
? Given how unsatisfactory life is for so many in society, the follow-up question is,
how much room was there for Mandela to maneuver
? South Africa now lurches from crisis to crisis, and so many of us are tempted to remember the Mandela years – especially the first democratic government – as fundamentally different from the crony-capitalist, corruption-riddled, brutally-securitised, eco-destructive and anti-egalitarian regime we suffer now. But were the seeds of our present political weeds sown earlier?
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