The purpose and quality of management and business education in universities have been subjected to an onslaught of vitriolic criticism. Most of this conversation emanates from the global north or west, particularly the United States and to a lesser extent Western Europe. I focus here on management and business education challenges in South Africa. Its sociopolitical history as well as its location in the global south, in juxtaposition to the global north, raises different challenges. South Africa’s multilayer context creates differences in both the challenges faced by universities and management academics and the responses required. The dominant prescriptions for changing management and business education are inadequate where the challenge is transformative nation building across all sectors of society. After describing the challenges for management education, I offer an agenda that attempts to traverse the complex interplay between South Africa’s simultaneous postapartheid and postcolonial conditions.