Dr Vincent Maphai PDF Print E-mail
Commissioner on the National Planning Commission, convenor of Month Fleur and Dinokeng Scenarios
Vincent Maphai has, since March 2009, been the Executive Director of Corporate Affairs and Transformation at SAB Limited.  Previously he was Chairman of BHP Billiton Southern Africa.

He graduated from UNISA with BA degree in 1975. He then studied at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium where he completed a Bachelor of Philosophy cum laude in 1976. This was followed by a Master’s Degree in Philosophy magna cum laude in 1978 from the same university. He holds a PhD from the University of Natal, an honours degree in international politics from UNISA and completed an advanced management programme at Harvard University.

His academic career spans over two decades at universities in South Africa and abroad, including universities of Transkei, Witwatersrand, Western Cape and Pretoria. He was also visiting professor at the North Eastern University, Boston, Massachusetts.  For three years he was Research Executive Director at the Human Sciences Research Council.  He is published widely, locally and internationally.  He has held fellowships at universities of Oxford, Harvard, Princeton and Stanford. From 1996 to 1998 he was professor extraordinaire in the Department of Political Science at the University of South Africa (UNISA).

He joined the private sector in 1998 as Director at the South African Breweries until 2004. He served as a non executive director of Discovery Holdings Limited, Tongaat Hulett and Rand Mutual Assurance Company Limited (Chairman).

He was convenor of Mont Fleur Scenarios in the early nineties, as well as Dinokeng Scenarios in 2008.

He was Chairman of the Presidential Review Commission, a body set up by then president Nelson Mandela to investigate government restructuring and service delivery. He served a term as chairman of the SABC from 1999 - 2003.  As well as Council Chair of the University of KwaZulu-Natal.  He is currently Chairman of the National Responsible Gambling Programme (NRGP).

Recently, he has been appointed as one of the Commissioners on the National Planning Commission.
Topics / focus areas
South African Political Dynamics and Transformation and impact on business or society
The Evolution of our Society into the Future
People and Business – Challenges of the New Society
Awareness of our own Political Baggage and its Impact on Society
How the Strategies of Liberation impact on our Future
Employment Equity
Political Scenarios and Trends
General motivational speeches
Dinner speeches
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Topics
  • South African Political Dynamics and Transformation and impact on business or society
  • The Evolution of our Society into the Future
    People and Business – Challenges of the New Society
  • Awareness of our own Political Baggage and its Impact on Society
    How the Strategies of Liberation impact on our Future
  • Employment Equity
    Political Scenarios and Trends
  • General motivational speeches
  • Dinner speeches
Speaks
  • English
Publications
  • The real State of the Nation. With David Everatt (2003)
  • South Africa: Challenges of Change. (1994)
Chapters In Books
  • “Race and the Politics of Transition:  Confusing Political Imperatives with Moral Rights”.  Chabani Manganyi.   2004.  On Becoming a Democracy:  Transition and Transformation in South African Society.
  • (with Keith Gottschalk).  “Parties, Politics and the Future of Democracy”.  2003  (ed) Maphai V.T. with David Everatt: The real State of the Nation.


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