He was the first black Deputy Vice-Chancellor of one of South Africa’s English-language and metropolitan universities. He later joined the South African Medical Research Council, which he headed between 1999 and 2002, and was involved in developing South Africa’s AIDS strategy and the South African AIDS Vaccine Initiative. More recently, he was the health ombudsman tasked with investigating the Life Esidimeni tragedy. And last year he released his tell-all book, titled Leadership for Transformation since the Dawn of South Africa’s Democracy: An insider’s view. He joins us this evening as our profile interview, Prof Malegapuru Makgoba.