Capitalist Crusader

When Nelson Mandela became South Africa’s president in 1994, Herman Mashaba thought his struggle for personal and economic freedom was over, the battle won. Twenty-one years later, he has had to question that assumption as his freedoms are eroded and economic controls tighten. As a successful business person, Mashaba says he can no longer be silent on the state of the South African economy. In Capitalist Crusader he describes the changes in his political affiliations and maps out the route South Africa needs to follow to escape entrenched unemployment, poverty and inequality.

Herman Mashaba

Herman Mashaba is a Non-Executive Director of Black Like Me (Pty) Ltd which he co-founded in 1985 in South Africa. He is also Executive Mayor of Johannesburg, South Africa and Africa's largest and most important city. In 2004 Mashaba won the Free Market Foundation's Free Market Award for his exceptional contribution to the cause of economic freedom in South Africa.