Aubrey Matshiqi's services as a political analyst are used by academic institutions, research institutions, foreign embassies, political parties and private companies. He has specialised in South African Politics with a special focus on the ANC and the Alliance, the re-alignment of opposition political politics, electoral system reform and the state of democracy in South Africa. He has also conducted research on historical memory and politics in post-apartheid South Africa.
Aubrey was a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Policy Studies until 2011 and is now a research fellow at the Helen Suzman Foundation. He is also a research fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies.
Matshiqi is a former Mathematics Science and English teacher and government strategist and spokesperson. Towards the end of his teaching career he obtained a degree in History and English Literature.
He is also a former member of the United Democratic Front, African National Congress and the South African Communist Party.
He writes a weekly column for the Business Day and a monthly column for Engineering News. He also writes regularly for other publications in and outside South Africa.
He has written on the following topics:
• The one party state in Africa and lessons for South Africa
• The re-alignment of opposition politics in South Africa
• The implications of the Jacob Zuma corruption trial for the South African criminal justice system.
• The performance of the public service
• Development at local level
His services as a political analyst are used by academic institutions, research institutions, foreign embassies, political parties and private companies such as: Morgan Stanley • Merrill Lynch • Anglo American • Anglo Platinum • Sun International • PriceWaterHouseCoopers • KPMG • Goldman Sachs • First Rand • Kagiso Securities • Thebe Securities • JP Morgan • Rand Merchant Bank • Bureau for Economic Research (Stellenbosch) • Sasol and G.I.B.S.
Matshiqi is currently writing a book that is scheduled for publication in September 2012.