My Guest was Rev. Frank Chikane

The Rev. Frank Chikane is a Pastor emeritus of the Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) which has a presence in 35 countries found in the six continents of the world. He is a former President of the AFM International which heled for 23years up August 2019. He is the Moderator of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Churches Commission on International Affairs (CCIA); a member of the Advisory Committee of the All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC) on Peace and Security on the African continent; Chair person of Kagiso Trust and the Board of the Apostolic Faith Mission Theological College (AFMTC); and a member of the following Boards: Kagiso Capital (KC), Kagiso Tiso Holdings (KTH), and Sci-Bono Discovery Centre,

He is a former Director of the Institute for Contextual Theology (ICT); Deputy President of the Soweto Civic Association (SCA); the United Democratic Front (UDF); General Secretary of the SACC; a member of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) responsible for the first democratic elections in South Africa; Special Advisor to the Deputy President, Thabo Mbeki; Director General in the Office of Deputy President Mbeki; a member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the African National Congress (ANC); Deputy Secretary of Cabinet during the Presidency of Nelson Mandela; Director General in the Presidency and Secretary of the Cabinet during the Presidency of Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe; and managed the transition from President Motlanthe to that of Jacob Zuma; and a former member of the Global Council of the Empowered21 and the E21 Africa Cabinet

He is also a former Chair of City Power Johannesburg; a member of the Board of Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA); the Housing Trust; and Thebe Investments. A former member of the Councils of the University of the North (now Limpopo) and the University of the Witwatersrand.

Academic Qualification: Diploma in Theology (Pan African College); Masters in religious studies (UN now KZN); and Masters in Public Administration (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University). Conferred Honorary Degrees from the Groningen University (Netherlands); Oberlin College (USA); and Nelson Mandela University (South Africa).

Publications: He has published three Books – No Life of My Own (1986/2013); Eight Days in September: The Removal of Thabo Mbeki (2012); and The Things that Could Not Be Said (2013); and a number of papers published in various books and publications.