Frans Cronje
Frans Cronje was educated at St John’s College in Houghton and holds a PHD in scenario planning. He has been at the IRR for 15 years and established its Centre for Risk Analysis as a scenario focused research unit servicing the strategic intelligence needs of corporate and government clients. It uses deep-dive data analysis and first hand political and policy information to advise groups with interests in South Africa on the likely long term economic, social, and political evolution of the country. He has advised several hundred South African corporations, foreign investors, and policy shapers. He is the author of two books on South Africa’s future and scenarios from those books have been presented to an estimated 30 000 people. He writes a weekly column for Rapport and teaches scenario based strategy at the business school of the University of the Free State.
Articles By This Author
Steel yourself as we try and get the ANC’s horse to talk
As the odds of imminent policy reform in South Africa become less, the passage of time becomes more important in determining what happens next. As
Uniting the middle in South Africa’s battle of ideas
Frans Cronje writes on the importance on uniting the moderate majority of South Africans, in order to build a South Africa that works for all.
The silencing of the lambs
The full text of the speech by Institute of Race Relations CEO Frans Cronje at Stellenbosch University, 13 March 2019 Ahead of this event a