Black Management Forum Announces Its Partnership With Wits Business School
Black Management Forum Announces Its Partnership With Wits Business School. Black Management Forum has announced its partnership with Wits Business School in order to advance leadership transformation in South Africa.
Professor Maurice Radebe, Head and Director of Wits Business School said in a statement, “The BMF has played a critical role in South Africa over the decades in nurturing a culture of excellence among black managers and leaders. This partnership represents a meeting of minds as we both strive towards nurturing and mentoring the next generation of leaders, and by so doing honouring the vision of founding fathers of the BMF.”
The BMF, founded in 1976 as a support group to address the challenges or corporate structures in South Africa, now stands for the development and empowerment of managerial leadership in advancing socio-economic transformation. President of the Black Management Forum Mr Andile Nomlala, reflected on the importance for executive and management education to focus on transformation as well as identifying economic interventions to take South Africa out of the, “quagmire” it finds itself in.
He referred to the recent release of the first Zondo Commission reports as a background to the need for business leaders to move the country forward. He said in a statement, “At BMF we are no longer looking at a narrow agenda of transformation in corporate South Africa alone, we now have a bigger responsibility of looking at transformation in the broader South African context. We now need to move forward with a critical mass of capable, skilled, well-equipped, well-grounded and ethical leaders, rather than drown in politically driven cadre deployment. The bigger vision of the BMF is now to become the problem solvers, and this is why we have chosen to forge a long-lasting partnership with Wits Business School.”
