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Mandla Lionel Isaacs

Mandla Lionel Isaacs is head of policy for Rise Mzansi.

Email: [email protected]

OPINIONISTA

New political leaders who actually know how to run a modern economy are needed for SA

by: Mandla Lionel Isaacs

OPINIONISTA

Resetting South Africa’s public leadership culture is the only way out of our dysfunctional state of affairs

by: Mandla Lionel Isaacs

OPINIONISTA

SA’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine exposes the moral and strategic incoherence of our foreign policy

by: Mandla Lionel Isaacs

OPINIONISTA

The business of running South Africa: Who should manage the economy?

by: Mandla Lionel Isaacs

OPINIONISTA

The African century has not yet begun — these are the reasons it remains elusive (Part Two)

by: Mandla Lionel Isaacs

OPINIONISTA

The African century has not yet begun — these are the reasons it remains elusive (Part One)

by: Mandla Lionel Isaacs

OPINIONISTA

South African politics: Parties are not the problem — and independent candidates are not the solution

by: Mandla Lionel Isaacs

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The root cause of South Africa’s decline that shall not be named

by: Mandla Lionel Isaacs

OPINIONISTA

The politics of the pandemic and the pandemic of politics

by: Mandla Lionel Isaacs

OPINIONISTA

Ramaphosa’s historic opportunity: Towards a generational economic transformation after the pandemic

by: Mandla Lionel Isaacs

OPINIONISTA

Covid-19 is stretching government’s economic policymaking capacity to the limit

by: Mandla Lionel Isaacs

OPINIONISTA

‘Campaign in poetry, govern in prose’ – government should be all about delivery, not lofty promises

by: Mandla Lionel Isaacs