Overview 

The first webinar in the series Financial Fitness for the Future will be presented by award-winning journalist Bruce Whitfield!

Politics and the levels of rhetoric are drowning out sober discussion. This webinar will bring perspective at a time of deep uncertainty and will provide managers and leaders with the insight to lead their teams. The audience will be taken on a roller coaster ride through 50 years of our history to provide some context to today's challenges. Nenegeddon was not the end. What felt cataclysmic at the time of Nhlanhla Nene’s firing in December 2016 is actually proving to be a catalyst for change – a slow and painful catalyst - but a catalyst nevertheless.

Despite the noise and the chaos over more than five decades, South Africans have prospered.  Although negativity and despondency have reached new levels recently, history proves South Africans are resilient and have risen above these testing circumstances.  History books verify that claim and Bruce will use those illustrations to push forward.

Join Bruce Whitfield and Nicholas Loggenberg on 5 August 2020 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in the first webinar of the Financial Fitness for the Future series brought to you by Old Mutual, where they will provide context for why we can look to the future of South Africa with optimism.

Learning objectives

By the end of this event the participant will:

• Know the current political and financial situation faced by South Africa.
• Understand the problems we need to deal with:
  • Skills Shortage;
  • Education;
  • Food Security; and
  • Unemployment.
• Understand why there is reason to be optimistic about our future, with examples of great innovation currently taking place to address our current problems.
• Understand the role of business and entrepreneurs in shaping South Africa’s future post COVID-19.

Content

The webinar will cover the following topics:

• Highlights of South Africa's past.
• Current political and financial challenges.
• Challenges to deal with now:
  • Skills Shortage;
  • Education;
  • Food Security; and
  • Unemployment.

• The future and why there's reason to be optimistic.
• The role of business post COVID-19....

Obtaining your CPD certificate

This webinar is free and does not qualify you for CPD hours.

About the presenter

Bruce Whitfield

Bruce Whitfield is a multi-platform award-winning financial journalist whose creative and engaging presentation makes money matters accessible to a broad audience. He graduated with a Bachelor of Journalism degree from Rhodes University and has been practicing as a journalist for over two decades.

He has been named Sanlam Financial journalist of the Year in 2014 and Sanlam Radio Financial Journalist of the year in 2014 and 2015. He’s also been crowned Citadel Words on Money Overall Winner for personal finance writing; was named Citi South Africa Financial Journalist of the Year in 2009 and completed a course at New York's famed Columbia Journalism School as part of that programme. Bruce has won numerous other accolades for print, radio and television in the Sanlam and Citadel awards over the past decade as well as multiple wins for best financial broadcaster in the MTN Radio Awards.

Bruce presents The Money Show on 702 and CapeTalk, hosts Tonight with Bruce Whitfield on CNBC Africa and is a columnist and writer for the Sunday Times Business Times. He is also a sought-after public speaker, MC and conference facilitator.

Nicholas Loggenberg

Nicholas Loggenberg is the head of Planning and Analysis at Old Mutual. He has been with Old Mutual for the past seventeen years where he has played a significant role in many different areas within the company.

Nicholas is currently also a training officer for Old Mutual’s CA training program. A role he enjoys tremendously.

Who should attend

The following persons will benefit from attending this webinar:

• Professional Accountants including: RA, CA(SA),PA(SA) and BAP(SA);
• Bookkeeping/accounting and audit practice owners;
• Accounting/bookkeeping and audit practice trainees.

Price

This webinar is free.

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Additional material

By attending this webinar you will be provided with:

• Summarised slide presentation.
• Reference documents and/or course material where available.
• You can ask questions during the webinar and you will also have access to me the presenter after the webinar.