Leadership is the engine that moves every country or groups of people forward in different spaces of life. Leadership in itself can be defined in different ways by different people.
I interpret leadership as the ability to identify the ideal situation for your constituency and mobilize resources and talents to adequately address the problems questions at hand.…Read more
This past week we have had the honor and privilege of attending a panel discussion on exploring global perspectives ,diversity and lived experiences which was moderated by Janel George(Director of Federal Reproductive Rights and Health at the National Women’s Law Center) at the Centre for American progregress.The panel comprised of two students from SAWIP;Sipho and Khanyiso and two WIP(Washington-Ireland Programme) students.The conversatiotion hinged around what diversity means to each of the four participants and what their lived experiences were growing up in a post conflict nation.…Read more
It feels very nice and rewarding to bask in the glory of being a “good man” and have society perceive you are an exception to the norm and acknowledge you for being a good member of society.
I’m writing with regards to the recent uproar around femicide and the systematic violence on women in South Africa.…Read more
I take deep pride in my SA identity. I know that the rights and freedoms i enjoy today have been fought for me by those who have gone before me. In the same breath,I feel a sense of responsibility to never take them for granted whilst navigating the possibility to question my experience in SA as a black person with the prevalence of the same freedoms and rights.…Read more
We live in a world that forces us to constantly prove ourselves as an indication that our lives are moving forward and that we are headed for “success”. The word success has deliberately been enclosed in inverted commas because it does not have have a universal definition,as far as I’m concerned.…Read more