Lovemore Ndou on fighting poverty

In this episode of the 'Solutions With David Ansara' podcast, I speak with former world champion boxer turned lawyer, Lovemore Ndou, about his new memoir, Tough Love.   

We discuss Lovemore's rough childhood in 1980s Messina (now known as Musina), his escape to Australia, and his long journey to the top of the boxing world.  We also reflect on the transformational power of education, and his "second career" as an attorney in Sydney.    

Lovemore and I dissect the current state of South Africa, and try to understand where the country has gone wrong since he left in the mid-1990s. Lovemore pulls no punches in his assessment of the ruling party's performance: BEE, corruption and a culture of impunity are just a few of the problems the ANC has inflicted on South Africa, he says.   

Lovemore has his own ideas for how to fix the country of his birth. He details his plans to return to South Africa, as well as his long-term political ambitions in this wide-ranging conversation.

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(0:00) Intro

(1:00) Lovemore Ndou on growing up in poverty  

(3:10) Lovemore Ndou on witnessing political violence in Zimbabwe as a child

(7:28) Lovemore Ndou on overcoming adversity

(10:25) Lovemore Ndou reflects on his boxing career

(15:08) Lovemore Ndou on why he emigrated to Australia

(20:55) Lovemore Ndou on why Black Economic Empowerment failed

(28:26) Lovemore Ndou on his political ambitions

(31:34) Lovemore Ndou on the transformative power of education

(35:34) Lovemore Ndou on how to create equality of opportunity

(41:12) Lovemore Ndou on how to fix government

(44:55) Lovemore Ndou on non-racialism in South Africa

(49:04) Lovemore Ndou on the Economic Freedom Fighters

(50:16) Lovemore Ndou on why South Africa needs a new political party

(52:07) Conclusion  

RESOURCES  

READ 'Tough Love: How A Limpopo Homeboy Became A World Champ Turned Lawyer' by Lovemore Ndou (Jonathan Ball, 2021): 

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