LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

A six month leadership curriculum both in South Africa and Washington, DC,  supplemented by ongoing alumni opportunities.

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A core element of SAWIP, expressed through individual and team projects, both in South Africa and
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SAWIP 2013 Programme in Photos

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Welcome SAWIP Team 2013

The SAWIP Team 2013

 

The South Africa-Washington International program is pleased to present the Class of 2013. After a highly competitive process that drew over 140 applicants, fifteen exceptional students were selected to pursue an intensive six month development program in South Africa and the United States which aims to inspire and build their capabilities for leadership and service.
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Grappling with the Route to Nation Building and acknowledging the potholes along the way.

SAWIP hosted a dialogue in Cape Town on the 14th of April 2013 to examine the need for Social Innovation and the Role of Memory and Legacy therein.

 


SAWIP, InkhuluFreeHeid, Activators and guests engaging with the panelists: Ziyanda Kenya (IFH), Edyth Parker (IFH & SAWIP) and Mandy Sangor (District Six Museum). Advocate Mike Pothier (Parliamentary Liaison Office of the Catholic Bishop’s Conference) facilitated.
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Shifting Paradigms, One Dialogue at a Time

The beauty of democracy is that it allows the space to reinvent itself. It our duty as citizens of democracy to ensure that this beauty is not jaded.

 

This spirited assertion offered by Erik de Ridder captures some of the challenging ideas presented at this year’s first dialogue jointly hosted by SAWIP and Inkulufreeheid on Monday, March 25 at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) in Johannesburg.
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InkuluFreeHeid

Erik de Ridder (SAWIP Alumnus 2011)

Erik de Ridder and Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh participated in SAWIP in 2011, during which time they built on a solid personal and professional relationship which had evolved during their time serving on University of Cape Town Students’ Representative Council. While on the SRC, Sizwe, Erik and the SRC 2010 team founded the African Student Leaders’ Summit which featured former President Thabo Mbeki.
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TEAM BLOGS
  • To be human
      This week SAWIP visited the Holocaust Center in Cape Town. This is a challenging blog for me to write because the experience so deeply moved me that I feel it would be wrong to not wr
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    posted by Jessica Breakey on Wednesday, 22 May 2013
  • Education… The only way out?
    I was watching a movie a few weeks ago with some friends, this movie was titled The Great Debaters. This movie is about a few talented college students attending school at Willey College in Texas in t
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    posted by Zizipho Pae on Tuesday, 21 May 2013
  • Untitled: 15510
      On leaving the Holocaust exhibition I immediately jotted down a few thoughts and feelings since I did not want to lose that gravity of the moment. There is a heaviness which weighs down on you like
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    posted by Wiaan Visser on Monday, 20 May 2013
  • Is it always good to give?
      When a beggar asks you for money, how do you respond?     I remember when I was younger, one of my mom’s friends told us that a beggar came up to her and asked for money to buy bread. Instead of
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    posted by Sibahle Magadla on Monday, 20 May 2013
  • Individuals or Institutions?
    Inherent in the creation of any society are the institutions that form the foundation for social development, the process by which a social group learns, adapts, grows, and reflects. These instituti
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    posted by Matthew Chennells on Sunday, 19 May 2013
  • HerStory of Solms-Delta
    On visiting the Solms-Delta farm yesterday, we were taken through a journey of the farms history by a very inspiring woman, Marcia. She had the courage to share her life experience on the farm with
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    posted by Camille Fredericks on Sunday, 19 May 2013
  • The Generosity Paradox
      The “challenge” of raising R7000 towards my participation in SAWIP taught me a lot. I learned that I am part of, and have access to, more networks than what I would have thought prior to undertakin
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    posted by Mario Meyer on Saturday, 18 May 2013
  • Searching for my 'how'
        So far our blogs have been a space where we have been allowed to reflect on our self, our team, our passions, views and the vision we each hold for South Africa. I find reading the blogs an imme
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    posted by Jessica Breakey on Wednesday, 15 May 2013
  • On the legacy of Apartheid
          2.) On blaming apartheid and its legacy. This blog forms part of a series of I will be writing on the idea of a born free generation. *Also I promise I wrote this blog before reading Je
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    posted by Wiaan Visser on Tuesday, 14 May 2013
  • Why I love learning
    I am enrolled for 8 modules at the Sustainability Institute this year, one of which ran this past week. The module is called Food Security and Globalised Agriculture and I returned to the normal rhyth
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    posted by Anna-Marie Müller on Tuesday, 14 May 2013

 

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