Manyi — who has yet to respond satisfactorily to claims by one of the Scandinavian governments that when he was director- general of labour he tried to moonlight for his own pocket by soliciting business from said Scandinavians — is what I have called in the past a "professional black". He is among those for whom blackness is a job description. He is not a black professional in the sense that one is a black engineer or a black accountant. He is, simply, a professional black. His profession is his blackness. He trades on his skin colour. He thrives on the high melanin content of his epidermis. That is why he insists on staying on as president of the Black Management Forum (BMF). He needs the forum like fish need water. He needs the forum to pursue his self- interested agenda as a professional black. He cannot survive otherwise
And with no political background. What I don't understand is, if the BMF is almost completely ignored by business and hence irrelevant, what is it that Manyi brings to Zuma? All I can see is trouble