BLAZING A TRAIL, lessons for African leadership

327pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2022

Foreword by Mteto Nyati.

Memoir by Lincoln Mali, CEO of Lesaka Technologies.

As a student activist Mali was President of the Black Student Movement at Rhodes University, National Vice–President of South African Students Congress (SASCO) and former National Vice-Chairperson of the National Education Coordinating Committee (NECC).

Mali began his professional career as a Candidate Attorney at Cheadle, Thompson & Haysom in 1993. He served in the new South African government in 1994 as Ministerial Spokesperson and Advisor to the then Minister of Education. In 1997, he joined the Banking Council SA as a General Manager responsible for Public Policy, SME Development and Market Conduct Regulation, and in 2001 moved to Standard bank as a Senior Manager at Corporate & Investment Banking. In 2013, he was appointed as the Regional Head, Western Region, Africa. He has been CEO of Lesaka Technologies since May 2021.

"Ethical, fearless, judicious, loud, brave and insistent, Lincoln is worthy of emulation." Bonang Mohale, author of Lift As You Rise