Associate Professor Mills Soko discusses the outcomes of a roundtable discussion hosted by the University of Cape Town's Graduate School of Business, under the auspices of the GR: EEN FP7 Project, on Friday 9 December 2011. The roundtable explored the notion of aid effectiveness vis-à-vis development effectiveness within the context of European aid to Africa. The roundtable panel consisted of: Professor Ben Turok, a leading member of the South African Parliament with extensive experience of dealing in aid issues; Mr Francis N'gambi, Founder and Chairperson of the Malawi Economic Justice Network; Ms Catherine Grant, Programme Head of the Economic Diplomacy Programme at the South African Institute of International Affairs; Mr Antoine Michon, French Consul General in South Africa; and Dr Mzukisi Qobo, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pretoria.