At the 5th Nation Brand Forum Nzinga Qunta opens with a warm, formally pitched welcome to both in-venue delegates and remote viewers. She acknowledges senior guests (Deputy Minister, Presidency representatives and continental officials), establishes the programme’s purpose reflecting on national rebuilding and reassuring both local and international stakeholders and sets the rules for participation.

Nzinga gives clear, practical instructions: use the event hashtag (#nbf21, #believeinsouthafrica) for questions and polling across Facebook and YouTube, adhere to COVID-19 protocols in the hall, and respect session timing so international guests can dial in punctually. Her handover is efficient and professional as she invites Dr Jessica Bargueno (first speaker) to the stage, using applause to mark the transition. The clip demonstrates Nzinga’s command of hybrid formats, stage timing, audience management and protocol for high-level public-private discussions.

In this excerpt Jack Ma (Ma Yun), moderated by Nzinga Qunta, begins telling his early life and the lessons that shaped his entrepreneurial journey. He describes being born into a modest family, struggling academically with repeated exam failures in primary and middle school, and failing entrance attempts to university in his early years. Unable to continue immediately into higher education, he started looking for work and faced numerous rejections a period that taught him persistence and resilience.

Ma’s candid recounting reframes failure as formative: each setback pushed him to try again, eventually leading from a modest teaching job into founding Alibaba and building one of the world’s largest e-commerce platforms. These anecdotes underscore three practical takeaways for entrepreneurs: persistence through rejection, learning from repeated failure, and the long arc from small beginnings to global impact. (Background on Jack Ma and Alibaba for context).

In this panel introduction Nzinga Qunta opens the World Economic Forum session on achieving universal health coverage. She welcomes attendees and frames the discussion by naming the session’s high-level participants and the stakes: access to basic health services remains out of reach for large parts of the population. Nzinga names the format and logistics for the audience and sets a sober context with headline statistics: at least 50 percent of Africa’s population lacks access to basic health services, and roughly 400 million people globally do not have access to essential care.

She highlights the human and economic costs of out-of-pocket healthcare spending that pushes millions into extreme poverty yearly, then defines universal health coverage as ensuring all individuals and communities can obtain the health services they need without financial hardship.

The clip functions as a crisp programme primer: it identifies key guest types (heads of state, global health funders, clinicians, and health-technology leaders), establishes the scale of the problem in plain terms, and positions the panel to move from diagnosis to solutions — financing, workforce, and technology. Nzinga’s framing provides both urgency and structure, preparing the audience for technical discussion while keeping the conversation grounded in public impact.

In this panel introduction Nzinga Qunta summarises the government’s infrastructure priorities and hands the stage to Dr Jose Mohopa (Head: Infrastructure South Africa) for an update. She notes infrastructure’s broad impact from the green economy to social infrastructure and new revenue streams and flags blended-finance opportunities across water, ICT and energy sectors.

Nzinga references the creation of a dedicated office within the Presidency tasked with consolidating infrastructure delivery and aligning investments to a national target of R1.2 trillion. She recalls that the first Sustainable Infrastructure Development Symposium produced a public pipeline of 62 projects, and frames the discussion as forward-looking: what to expect next in special economic zones, project pipelines, and investment-ready opportunities. The segment positions the panel to move from policy framing to practical project updates and investor signals.