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Watch – Is the UN still relevant?

Listen as Redi Tlhabi speaks with political scientist and PARI executive director Dr Sithembile Mbete about the United Nations at a moment of deep, deep strain. They talk through why decades of debate on Security Council reform have led nowhere, how the veto entrenches global inequality, and what this paralysis means for Africa and the global South. It is a conversation about privilege, stalled change, and the kind of crisis that may be required to finally force reform.

Redi Tlhabi and Dr Sithembile Mbete (Illustration: The Readiness report/ Daily Maverick) Redi Tlhabi and Dr Sithembile Mbete (Illustration: The Readiness report/ Daily Maverick)


This episode was made possible thanks to The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom.

Hosted by: Redi Tlhabi
Guest: Sithembile Mbete
Edited by: Joel Seboa
Produced by: Emilie Gambade & Joel Seboa
Original Theme Music & Design by: Bernard Kotze

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