This house believes that the state is right to ....

Peeps, you are all invited to this debate; it promises to be fascinating!

FREE entry, and great food and drinks served afterwards while we all schmooz pretentiously...

FULL MOTION: This house believes that the state is right to place state-owned enterprises at the centre of economic growth...

FOR THE MOTION: 1) Jak Koseff (brilliant, and brilliantly flamboyant speaker (no, not gay!) & economic policy geek of late .... a comrade now, sans his Hegel days, working for Joburg City);2) Neva Makgetla (excellent economist: chief economist at Development Bank of Southern Africa; Business Day columnist & a speaker that, uhm, one might describe as brutally honest, or as a TV producer friend said, "curt" ... which bodes well for this parliamentary-style debate)

AGAINST THE MOTION: 1) Joe Roussous (weirdo. translation: into maths, and physics. and stuff. Excellent speaker...surprisingly not boring, despite being trained at the Wits Debate Union...should ruffle Koseff's feathers nicely. Fresh from the World Debate Champs);2) Leon Louw (Right Wing par excellence...yet surprisingly respectful of other human beings; a great natural debater and - in my view - the economist type who puts the argument for a small state most compellingly in public debate; executive director of Free Market Foundation. 'Nuff said.)

MODERATOR: One Eusebius McKaiser

TIME: 530pm for 6pm

WHEN?: TODAY!!!!! (Thursday, 29th April)WHERE? Gibs Business School; Meville Road, Illovo, Joburg

RSVP Katie McNally mcnallyk@gibs.co.zaBe there or be square!