Moeletsi Goduka Mbeki has a background in journalism, with a resume that includes a
Harvard University Nieman Fellowship and time at the
BBC. He worked for The Herald newspaper as a journalist while in exile in Zimbabwe. He often acts as a political commentator in
South Africa, and is the author of a paper titled "Perpetuating Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa", published on 30 June 2005 by the
International Policy Network. He was a media consultant for the
ANC in the 1990s, and is currently the chairman of
Endemol South Africa, a TV production house, and KMM Review Publishing and Africa. He has also been director of
Comazar, which rehabilitates and grants concessions to railway networks in Africa. In 2003 it was revealed by
John Perlman that the SABC had blacklisted a lot of political commentators and that Moeletsi was one of them, possibly due to his political views. Moeletsi generated some controversy when he said that Africa was governed better under colonial rule than today. (See
October 2007 in rail transport). In October 2006 Moeletsi Mbeki applied for an order to have
Jonathan Moyo jailed the next time he visits South Africa. He has been known to oppose certain
Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) deals in South Africa and has written articles for the
Cato Institute, a
USA-based
libertarian think tank.{{cite web|url=http://www.cato.org/pubs/fpbriefs/fpb85.pdf |title=Underdevelopment in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Role of the Private Sector and Political Elites|date=15 April 2005|author=Moeletsi Mbeki With his book
Architects of Poverty: Why African Capitalism Needs Changing in 2009 he triggered a debate about governance, ethics and moral values in African governance processes. == Controversies ==