CRISPIAN OLVER has been a medical doctor, political leader, environmental activist and public servant. He joined Nelson Mandela’s office in 1994 as head of planning for the Reconstruction and Devel...ver másCRISPIAN OLVER has been a medical doctor, political leader, environmental activist and public servant. He joined Nelson Mandela’s office in 1994 as head of planning for the Reconstruction and Development Programme, and went on to run the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism as Director General. He has had a lifelong interest in local government issues, and in 2015 he took on the most challenging assignment of his career, heading up an intervention to clean up corruption in the Nelson Mandela Bay metro.ver menos