Pali lehohla biography of william hill
Meet our keynote speaker, Dr. Pali Lehohla, Director of Economic Modelling Academy (EMA) and former Statistician-General of South Africa.
We are pleased to be in Uganda when the son of the soil, a pioneer, a true pan African, teacher, leader and mentor, the winner of the Mahalanobis award, the.!
Pali Lehohla: number's up for the man in the yellow suit
There ’s lies, damn lies and statistics — and then there’s Pali Lehohla, the civil servant who dragged Statistics SA out of the dark ages.
But for a chance meeting en route to Botswana, his skills may well have been lost to SA
19 November 2017 - 00:02 By SABELO NDLANGISA
Many people will probably remember Pali Lehohla for his yellow suit, but the former statistician-general has made an enormous contribution to our society during his 35-year career in the public service.
Lehohla donated the bright suit - which he introduced to whip up a sense of excitement around Census 2011 - to a UN museum in New York before he left StatsSA at the end of last month.
The donation was a gesture to mark the end of a distinguished 17-year career as our chief number-cruncher.
The name of the 60-year-old father of three has become synonymous with our post-apartheid is fond of telling an anecdote about how, as a boy, he chose a name for an o