HEALING FROM RACISM and DISMANTLING THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC STRUCTURES INSEPARABLE
Ian Fuhr has authored an important book: The Human Bridge – Racial Healing in South Africa. The book focuses on the major fault lines of...
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MAR
Aug 88 min
A Tribute to REVEREND DOCTOR SIMON GQUBULE
Memorial Lecture at Rhodes University The life and times of a giant such as Reverend Dr. Theocritus Simon Ndziweni Gqubule have much to...
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Aug 15 min
An Open Letter to President Ramaphosa
Congratulations Mr President on your decision to courageously fulfil the mandate given to you as the President of our Constitutional...
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Jun 75 min
Civilisational Change to Restore Meaning of Life
The state of our world today is a reflection of our deep footprint as a human race on Mother Earth. Humanity has already breached six of...
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May 226 min
Greentech Festival: THRIVING TOGETHER WITHIN PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
View here https://youtu.be/XHFzGiIdTWM or read below Berlin represents hope in the unseen. It is a city that never gave up on the idea of...
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May 164 min
A LETTER TO MY FELLOW CITIZENS
History is calling us to attention as citizens of this beautiful country. The national elections of 29th May 2024 are a great...
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Apr 268 min
WELLBEING FOR ALL FOR A HEALTHY PLANET
Thank you for the invitation to your Department’s Lecture Series to share my thoughts on some of the most pressing matters in our...
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Apr 185 min
MAY 2024 ELECTIONS ARE AN OPPORTUNITY TO GO BEYOND TRANSACTIONAL POLITICS
We have another opportunity as citizens of our constitutional democracy to use the power of our votes to elect leaders who have the...
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Mar 199 min
NEW CHALLENGES TO DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA: THE CRITICAL ROLE OF YOUNG LEADERS
2024 is a mega year of democracy with more than 65 countries across the globe holding elections for public representatives and...
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Feb 276 min
LESSONS FROM MY LEADERSHIP JOURNEY
Speech delivered at the Future Elect graduating cohort of Women In Public Office fellows Introduction Thank you Lindiwe Mazibuko for the...
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Feb 144 min
A LETTER TO MY SONS AND DAUGHTERS AND THEIR CHILDREN
You have the opportunity to reshape the future of your country by using the power of your numbers to transform our politics from the...
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Jan 295 min
WHAT DOES UBUNTU/COMPASSION MEAN IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AFRICA?
Introduction I chose the title of this Lecture almost a year ago because I have become increasingly aware that humanity is at a...
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Jan 246 min
What Would SA Look Like with Fully Liberated Citizens?
A fully free South Africa with liberated citizens would be characterised by Ubuntu values at the personal, professional, socio-economic...
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Dec 10, 20239 min
EVOLUTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND ITS EFFECTS ON WOMEN’S RIGHTS
Thank you President Mandisa Monakali, the founder of this great institution, for inviting me to be your Speaker tonight. I am looking...
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Dec 5, 20234 min
OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT RAMAPHOSA – JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED
President Ramaphosa, I write to you as a concerned citizen, woman and mother, to thank you for your reminder to gender-based violent...
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Nov 10, 20234 min
WHAT HAVE WE LEARNT?
WHAT TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE IS NEEDED NOW? Our founder, Aurelio Peccei, after selling millions of copies of The Limits to Growth, learnt...
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Oct 12, 20239 min
NELSON ROLIHLAHLA MANDELA – A GLOBAL ICON
South Africa is blessed with a few iconic figures who dedicated themselves to the liberation of our country from iniquitous extractive...
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Oct 11, 20237 min
HUMANITY IS CALLED TO AN ECOLOGICAL CIVILISATION
“We will prosper together in pursuit of life, or we will perish together in pursuit of money. The choice is ours,” David Korten, ...
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Sep 11, 20235 min
HOW MANY WAKE-UP CALLS DO WE NEED TO OUTGROW THE COLONIAL CITY AND GOVERNANCE MODEL THAT IS IMPRISON
Our government has over the last 30 years failed to heed far too many wake-up calls for us to expect better from them. They do not...
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Jul 24, 20233 min
THE HUMAN GAP: WHAT IS IT? WHY DOES IT MATTER?
The term ‘The Human Gap’ was coined by the founder of the Club of Rome, Aurelio Peccei, an Italian who was the CEO and Chair of Fiat...
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