Voices From Sa

Sinenhlanhla Nzama is the Head Product Actuary for South African financial services giant Investec. As such he is responsible for product development, risk and underwriting for Investec's insurance arm. While we did discuss some aspects of his business, including the impact and influence of technology, particularly big data analytics, on the insurance industry as whole, we had a wide-ranging discussion on a number of topics. He told me about having to learn English when he moved to high school, and witnessing some of the awful political violence that plagued KwaZulu Natal province in the late 1980's and early 1990's. More importantly we chatted about his three pillars of transformation, the future of work, and how he sees the medium to long-term future of South Africa. ("There is nowhere on earth I would rather be")