Mont Fleur Module Agenda 2007 Fellows Mt Fleur Core Faculty Mt Fleur Speakers Oxford & London Agenda

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Mont Fleur Module Agenda: ARCHBISHOP TUTU FELLOWSHIP SOUTH AFRICA MODULE – DRAFT PROGRAMME Topic Goal of Session Speaker/Lead faculty Thursday 26th April 8.30 am Setting personal leadership goals Guidance on setting individual goals through co-consulting Norman Swanepoel 9.30 am Reflections on personal Leadership agendas Complete the work on this section Caryn Solomon Lunch Afternoon Visit to a Community Project Visit the Warehouse in Wetton FREE TIME IN CAPE TOWN 9.30 pm Return to Mont Fleur Friday 27th April 8.30 am Introduction to the Group Project Introduction to the Group Project and the tasks that will be done in Syndicate and between the workshops Peter Wilson 9.30 am Leadership Issues in future African Development Explore the major macro issues that will influence the future of Africa Olugbenga Adesida 11.00 am Syndicate Alternative Scenarios of the Future Development of Africa - preliminary reflection Peter Wilson & Olugbenga Adesida Afternoon Syndicate & Personal Reflection Future Development of Africa 17.30 pm Speaker Experiences as an African leader operating in the global arena, and his perspectives of the issues  the future leaders of the continent will face Dr. Franklin Sonn - former SA Ambassador in Washington, & Chancellor University of Free State Dinner Saturday 28th April 8.30 am Syndicate Presentations Alternative Scenarios of the Future Development of Africa - preliminary reflection 11.00 am Coaching/Mentoring Programme Introduction to the Coaching/Mentoring Programme. How it works and the requirements of the Fellow and the Mentor Peter Wilson 11.30 am Community Project Explanation of requirement for the Community Project. Guidance on how to go about it. Peter Wilson 12.00 am Private Reflection & Co-consulting Goal Setting To set personal & leadership goals for the next 6 months Fellows Afternoon Complete Private Reflection & Write Letter 16.00 pm A 2006 Fellow's Community Project Platinum Ring - the lessons and rewards Felleng Sekha 17.00 pm Speaker   Discussion Topic Global experiences in leadership of a South African business leader Selected Topic on Leadership and Leadership Issues in Africa Sean Lance (Chairman African Leadership Institute & Director of International Corporations) Fellows Dinner Final Dinner Share experiences & celebrate Sunday 29th April Farewells & Depart for Airport ^ back to top 2007 Fellows Saida Ali Co-Founder, Young Women’s Leadership Institute, Kenya  Saida is currently the Programme Director of the Young Women’s Leadership Institute (YWLI), an organization she co-founded. YWLI was founded to create space for young women to articulate their views and visions on the women’s rights development agenda. Saida has been at the center-stage in ensuring that YWLI’s mission is realized by mobilizing young women for action; to empower and build the capacity of young women to break the barriers preventing them from living lives of equality and to their full potentials. She has 5 years experience in gender and human rights work and advocacy strategy development. Her current work involves programming on women in leadership, capacity building and skills development. At the YWLI, she provides leadership in organizational strategic thinking and plays a key role in development of leadership and governance programs for young women.   She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology and English and is currently undertaking a Diploma course in NGO Management. She is also a Consultant on feminist analysis. She has previously been a Resource Person for the Ford Foundation and the Heinrich Boll Foundation; reviewing Ford Foundation’s work in the East African region in relation to the Nairobi Forward Looking Strategies (NFLS) and Mapping out of Best Practices within the women’s movement in Kenya, respectively. She worked with the Cooperazione Per Lo Sviluppo Dei Paesi Emergenti (COSPE) to develop leadership programs for Somali women as part of the Reconstruction and development process and framework for Somalia.  ^ back to top Erik Charas Director, Endowment and Investments, Foundation for Community Development (FDC) Mozambique Young Global Leader 2006  Erik is the youngest ever Director at the Foundation for Community Development (FDC), Mozambique's leading private non-profit institution that aims to promote solidarity, poverty reduction, good governance, respect of human rights and social justice. As head of FDC’s Endowment and Investments division, Erik is responsible for creating links between private sector and social sustainable development in Mozambique. Amongst other things he leads VidaGas, an FDC owned private company that supplies gas (LPG) in support to the Ministry of Health extended program for immunization as well as to over 1,5 million people in northern Mozambique who previously had no access to any source of energy. VidaGas is generating revenues for FDC's national vaccine and immunisation project.   Erik won the 2006 World Business Award, an ICC, IBLF and UNDP joint award, for his work in support of the Millennium Developments Goals. Erik is one of the most respected young social activists in Mozambique and has over ten years experience in the private and public sector in Southern Africa. At the age of 28, he was one of the youngest ever Rotary Club presidents in the world. He has been an invited lecturer to the faculties of architecture, anthropology and engineering at the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane. Erik has been nominated a Young Global Leader for 2006, a World Economic Forum initiative. He holds a degree in electro-mechanical engineering from the University of Cape Town, and is on a leave of absence from reading for his Msc. Eng. Degree from the same university. ^ back to top Yolan Friedmann CEO of the Endangered Wildlife Trust, South Africa  Yolan is the current (and first female) CEO of the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT). Yolan has a background in Veterinary Nursing, a BA in English and Communications and is currently completing an MSc in Environmental Management through WITS. She began her career as a lecturer in Animal Health and Veterinary Technology at an agricultural college and ran a community service veterinary clinic. She has worked for the EWT since 1995.   Career highlights include establishing a regional network of the Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (IUCN – World Conservation Union) in southern Africa which has, since 2001 produced conservation strategies and action plans for more than 12 threatened species in southern Africa, conducted workshops for conservation planning and training for more than 800 people and conducted strategy workshops in 5 countries. Yolan was the project manager and editor of the Red Data Book of the Mammals of South Africa (2004) covering all of South Africa’s 295 terrestrial and marine mammals.   Yolan is involved in many levels of conservation and has been elected as Chair of the IUCN South African National Member’s Committee and the Regional Advisory Committee of the IUCN’s Regional Office for Southern Africa (ROSA) for 2 terms thus far.  . Personal achievements include completing numerous ultra-distance running and cycling events, including the Comrades and 2 Oceans Marathons.  ^ back to top Daniel Fred Kidega Member of Parliament Uganda Member of East African Legislation Assembly  Daniel is the elected Uganda’s Representative to East African Legislation Assembly (E.A.L.A) for tenure of five years (2006 – 2011). He has been a Member of Parliament in Uganda for a period of five (5) years representing the youth.   He worked as a private Secretary to the Vice President of the Republic of Uganda.   Prior to joining legislative work, he has been a youth leader at different levels; Chairman of the National Youth Council (NYC), National Representative to the Common Wealth Youth Forum African Region. He has also been a strong student activist.   Daniel is an entrepreneur and runs a private secondary school in Eastern Uganda.  He pioneered an organization called Humanitarian Support Uganda (HSU) currently engaged in a struggle against HIV/AIDS and Women Empowerment.   Daniel obtained his first degree in Business Administration from Uganda Christian University, and he is now pursuing a post graduate programme in Management, specializing in Project Planning and Management at Uganda Management Institute.   ^ back to top Lisa Kropman Investec, South Africa Member Branson Advisory Board at CIDA Board Member, The Business Place   Lisa is currently assisting a broad based black economic empowerment (BEE) group to operationalise the Entrepreneurship Development Trust, created as one of the black empowerment partners to Investec’s BEE deal.   She joined Investec in May 1997, serving in the Employee Relations Division and represented the Banking Council on the negotiating team at NEDLAC for the Employment Equity Act. She was a member of the Banking Council and served on the sub-committee of the Inter Bank Working Group.   Her role in Investec included heading Investec’s Employment Equity Forum, formalising the group’s Employment Equity Plan and transformation process, driving the black empowerment strategy and initiating the sustainability process for the group. She also headed Investec’s Corporate Social Investment Division and was the catalyst in developing CIDA City Campus, South Africa’s first virtually free tertiary educational institution, and is credited with creating The Business Place, a cluster of businesses that support emerging entrepreneurs now operating in Johannesburg, Cape Town, King Williamstown and Botswana.   Lisa sits on all the boards of The Business Place in Johannesburg, Eastern Cape, Cape Town, Philippi and also on the Branson School Advisory Board at CIDA. She has served as an executive member and chairperson on the Witwatersrand Regional Committee of Lawyers for Human Rights.  Lisa has a Bachelor of Social Sciences from the University of Cape Town and a Bachelor of Law from the University of the Witwatersrand. She served articles of clerkship at Werksmans Attorneys in Johannesburg and remained there as an associate before joining Investec. ^ back to top Edward (Ed) Mabaya, PhD Research Associate, Cornell University, USA Founder, Seeds of Development Program Coordinator, Making Markets Matter  Zimbabwe Citizen  Edward is both an academic and a development practitioner.  As a development practitioner, Ed is dedicated to bettering the lives of African framers through innovative programmes and private enterprise. His efforts have won awards and impacted on the lives of many.  Ed established and is coordinating the Seeds of Development Program (www.sodp.org), a business development services (BDS) and networking program for medium-size seed companies in East and Southern Africa.  SODP has received the L.A. Potts Success Story Award at the Professional Agricultural Workers Conference (PAWC). SODP was cited as an innovative program resulting in high impact on low income communities.   The program currently works with 25 seed companies in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.  Ed is also the coordinator of Making Markets Matter (www.marketsmatter.org), a management training workshop series for agribusiness firms working in Sub-Saharan Africa.  The program has trained more than 400 entrepreneurs from over 15 African countries.     As a Research Associate in the Department of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University, his research interests include food marketing and distribution, spatial market integration and equilibrium, commodity price analysis and the role of efficient agricultural markets in rural economic development. An award-winning instructor, Ed has been recognized for his teaching excellence in Marketing Management. Prior to Cornell, he worked as a research assistant at the University of Zimbabwe where he earned his B.Sc. Ed received his MS and Ph.D. degrees in Agricultural Economics at Cornell University ^ back to top Azure Tariro Makadzange, MD DPhil Rhodes Scholar Parirenyatwa Hospital, Zimbabwe  Tariro was awarded a United World College scholarship to attend Pearson College, a unique international school on Vancouver Island in Canada, after completing her high school in Zimbabwe.  She later obtained her Bachelor degree in Biochemistry at Smith College in the United States.  She started and completed the preclinical years of medical school at Harvard University, after which she went on to earn her DPhil in immunology at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.  Her research focused on HIV, primarily working in East Africa examining immune responses to HIV among East Africans.    After completing her work in Oxford she returned to Harvard and completed medical school, and internship in Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Boston and Boston Medical Centre.  Continuing her focus on studying issues that are pertinent to people living with HIV in Africa, she was awarded in 2006 a research grant and decided to take a year off her residency program to conduct a clinical trial in Zimbabwe to examine the best way to treat Cryptococcal meningitis in the era of antiretroviral therapy.  She has been pivotally involved with the Parirenyatwa Hospital HIV/ART clinic from its early days in 2004, and has returned to Zimbabwe to conduct clinical trial and to assist in the running of an HIV treatment program in one of the largest hospitals in Harare.   Tariro is not only passionate about clinical care, but also about health care policy and plans to be actively involved in building a more functional health care system for all in Zimbabwe.   ^ back to top Herine Menya  Co-Founder, Global Leadership Interlink Founder Empower Africa Math and Science Foundation, Kenya  Herine is a Statistician by profession from Kenyatta University having obtained a Master of Science Degree in Statistics in the year 2001. In 2003 to 2004, Herine lectured mathematics at Strathmore University before leaving in 2005 to help birth the Global Leadership Interlink (GLI-East Africa), an organization whose vision is produce a new generation of leaders empowered to shape the destiny of Nations. GLI is currently registered as a professional organization in Kenya and has three functional professional chapters in three major cities in Kenya and four different chapters in four of Kenya’s public universities. Herine continues to coordinate the activities GLI East-Africa.   Herine has a passion for Africa and strongly believes that Africa can be developed to compete equally with other continents. To contribute to this, alongside her leadership initiatives, Herine founded an organization titled Empower Africa Math and Science Foundation whose main mission is to popularize the study of math and science. This organization was founded out of the recognition that math and science is the lifeblood of innovation and technology which continue to drive development across the globe. Herine’s dream is to create a network and nurture Africa’s future scientists from early ages and to inspire them to be committed to the cause of rebuilding Africa. ^ back to top Yohannes Mezgebe   Executive Director, Youth Corps, Ethiopia  Yohannes is Executive Director of Youth Corps Ethiopia, a non-profit organization working with and among the young people from academic institutions and the wider community. Youth Corps aims to empower the youth to develop a vision to transform society and to create a better Ethiopia. Youth Corps provides a mentorship program for leaders of the next generation.   Prior to working on youth leadership programmes, Yohannes joined the Dry Land Agriculture and Natural Science Faculty of Mekelle University where he graduated in 1999. After that, he was a professional footballer and later worked as a football coach, training youth teams.  In 2001, Yohannes founded the Youth Corps. He is also the Co-Founder of the African Youth Forum for Peace (AYFP). AYFP is a confederation of African Youth Peace Makers who are working together, sharing experiences and sensitising African leaders to the needs of African youths, particularly in areas of conflict.   Yohannes enjoys motivating young people in the areas of literacy, life skills, learning economically viable trades and serving in the communities in which they live. Yohannes maintains a very extensive network of internal and external contacts, and has developed close relationships with both state and non/state actors in the field of youth development. ^ back to top     Brilliant Mhlanga       Lecturer, National University of Science and Technology Zimbabwe Human Rights Activist    Brilliant is an Academic and a Human Rights Activist from Matebeleland, Zimbabwe. His activities in human rights and politics date back to the University of Zimbabwe where he was a Student Leader in the late 90s. It was also at the height of his Student Leadership days that he began to be active in the civil society movement of Zimbabwe; a mantle he has since carried to this day. Brilliant Mhlanga has worked and held various positions with organizations in the Zimbabwean civil society in the past six years, including Secretary of the Board for the Bulawayo Agenda, and the Human Rights Chair of the National Constituional Assembly task force. He also writes with the independent media in and outside Zimbabwe. These media institutions include; NewZimbabwe.com, The Standard, and Independent Newspapers.    Brilliant is a lecturer at the National University of Science and Technology in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies. He holds a Master of Arts in Culture, Communication and Media Studies, from the Universities of KwaZulu-Natal and Oslo (Norway). He also holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree and a BSc Hon. in Sociology from the University of Zimbabwe. Brilliant is also a Research Fellow with W. K. Kellogg Foundation and is a product of the Legon Centre for International Affairs, University of Ghana.   ^ back to top   Ipeleng Mkhari        Chief Investment Officer, Motseng Investment Holdings, South Africa    Ipeleng is the Co-founder and Chief Investment Officer Motseng Investment Holdings, a company that has shifted its focus from a soft services business and moved up the value chain to becoming a specialist property and industrials group.     A pioneering entrepreneur, Ipeleng established the first black woman owned CCTV business, which became the foundation of Motseng, a diversified group. She sits on boards of listed companies Martprop Property Fund, Ambit Properties and KAP International. As CIO of the group, she is responsible for the company’s growth strategy, including its subsidiaries such as Motseng Property Group, the largest black owned and operated property management company in South Africa, managing assets in excess of R3.7 billion.     Ipeleng is the Cosmopolitan / Foschini/ SAWEN Mover of the Year 2006. She was a finalist in the Women’s Property Network 5 Star Woman Award 2005, and a finalist in the Business Women’s Association Entrepreneurial Business Woman of the Year 2006.     In 2006, Motseng Investment Holdings was nominated as one of South Africa’s Top Empowerment Companies in the Investment Companies Sector by Impumelelo: South Africa’s Top 300 Empowerment Companies.    ^ back to top   Takalani Musekwa       Customer Services Manager, Eskom, South Africa    Takalani graduated from the Universities of Kwazulu-Natal and South Africa. He holds a BA Hons in Psychology and MBL degrees. He also completed a Management of Change Programme through Louw Du Toit and Associates, in association with Pepperdine University, USA. He taught Psychology at the University of Venda from 1992 to 1994.     He joined Eskom Holdings in 1995, and has worked in several of the Eskom Divisions, namely, Generation Division, Transmission Division, Enterprises Division, and now the HR Division, as Senior Advisor and HR Manager.  He has been involved in the implementation of the Eskom HR Shared Services over the past two years. He has received 3 Managers’ Awards in his career in Eskom Holdings. He presented talks at Conferences on HR topics.  Latest presentation was at the SA HR Best Practice Summit 2006. The topic of his presentation was “Setting up HR Shared Services in Eskom.”     Outside work, Takalani is involved in ministry with the Worldwide Church of God (WCG) as Pastor of Hope Christian Fellowship, in Johannesburg, which he started in 2003. He also serves as Regional Pastor for Gauteng and Northwest Provinces; National Church Board of the WCG in South Africa, and chair of a 4 member Ecclesiastical Council of the WCG in South Africa. ^ back to top   Mezuo O. Nwuneli       Until recently Chief Financial Officer MTS First Wireless Limited, Nigeria    Mr. Nwuneli holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.Sc. in Industrial Management, with a Minor in Information Decision Systems, from Carnegie Mellon University.    Mezuo is the Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of MTS First Wireless Limited, a CDMA mobile telecommunications firm.  Prior to this role he was a Vice President at Ocean & Oil Holdings where he focused on financial advisory assignments for the Ocean & Oil Group, a leading player in the West African oil & gas sector.  He has extensive investment banking and corporate finance experience, and has worked with J.P. Morgan & Co.’s mergers & acquisitions group in New York and Securities Transactions & Trust Co.’s (“SecTrust”) corporate finance group in Lagos.  Mr. Nwuneli has worked on over US$7 billion worth of closed global acquisition, divestiture and merger transactions.  He has also worked in corporate finance with the Sabre Group in Dallas, led an independent consulting assignment for the Ford Foundation on Nigeria’s micro finance sector, and worked with a Boston-based portfolio company of Berkshire Partners and Highland Capital.      Mr. Nwuneli actively supports various community and economic development initiatives; and is also a member of the Board of the Centre for Microenterprise Development Ltd./Gte.  He is married to Ndidi Nwuneli and they have a son, Udenna.   ^ back to top   Grace O. Ofem        CEO, Initiative for Peoples’ Good Health (IPGH), Nigeria    Grace is the CEO of Initiative for Peoples’ Good Health (IPGH), an NGO dedicated to building the capacity of Rural Communities to be able to respond to developmental challenges through Training, Advocacy and Community Mobilization. IPGH also provide Psychosocial, Nutritional, Educational and Medical Support to the growing number of orphans and vulnerable children in 10 Rural Communities of Cross River State in Nigeria.     Grace also initiated and leads a Youth Responsibility Project to address Adolescent Reproductive Health issues, Gender issues and examination malpractice in schools.     Grace is a graduate of Chemistry Education from the University of Calabar, Nigeria. She is an awardee of the 3rd Annual Nigeria Youth Leadership Award in 2006 and the National Youth Service Award in 2005.     ^ back to top   Niven Postma       Until recently CEO, NOAH, South Africa    Niven has worked in a number of fields since completing her BA degree (cum laude) at the University of Stellenbosch.     She started her professional career in Johannesburg, working as a consultant at Monitor Company, a global strategy consulting firm. During her 3 years at Monitor, Niven was assigned to various client cases in South Africa as well as in Turkey and across industries as diverse as retail, mining, government and healthcare. Niven left Monitor to start her own business, Spanner and Wench, and in 2002 was invited to be the first CEO of the Businesswomen’s Association, the largest association of business and professional women in South Africa.     From January 2005 to Feb 2007, Niven worked as the CEO of Noah (Nurturing Orphans of AIDS for Humanity), a S.21 company that works with communities across two provinces of South Africa, to build Arks, i.e. networks of care and support for South Africa’s approximately 1 million (and counting) orphaned and vulnerable children. She is currently on sabbatical.   ^ back to top   Oluwagbenga Sesan       Executive Director Paradigm Initiative Nigeria  Partner, Generis Solutions, Nigeria    Gbenga is a social entrepreneur and information society researcher. He was Nigeria’s first Information Technology Youth Ambassador. He has addressed over 400 audiences in nineteen countries. He has consulted for numerous institutions, including United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Res Publica (USA), International Telecommunications Union, and Computer Aid International (UK).    Gbenga was the Vice Chair of UNECA’s African Technical Advisory Committee, and pioneer Program Manager of the Lagos Digital Village. He was the youngest member of the Nigerian Presidential Task Force on the Restructuring of the Nigerian Information Technology and Telecommunications sectors. He is the Executive Director of Paradigm Initiative Nigeria, a Partner at Generis Solutions, and a Volunteer with the African Youth ICT4D Network. Gbenga is an author, guest columnist, regular feature on two television shows, and Vice President of the Alliance of Change Empowerment Speakers (ACES).    Gbenga was a recipient of the 2007 The Future Youth Advocacy award, 2006 International Telecommunications Union YES Scholarship award, 2006 The Future Best Use of Technology award, 2005 Stockholm Challenge Champion honor, 2004 NiPRO Excellence in Information Technology award, 2003 JCI Ten Outstanding Young Persons (TOYP) in Nigeria award, 2002 JCI Ten Outstanding Great Ife Alumni (TOGA) award, 2002 Journalists’ Frontier of Technology in Nigeria award, and the 2001 International Telecommunication Union African Youth Fellowship award. He has been profiled as one of the 35 Icons of ICT in Nigeria.    ^ back to top   Terence Gugulethu Sibiya, PhD       Director, Head of Foreign Exchange Sales Standard Bank Limited South Africa Swaziland citizen    Terence is a director in the Global Markets Division at Standard Bank Head Office in Johannesburg.  As head of the Foreign Exchange Sales team, his primary responsibility is managing the forex sales to corporates, institutions, and the branch network.  While his focus is predominantly on South Africa he also looks after inter Africa sales.    Until recently Terence was a director in the Equity Investments Division of Standard Bank as Head of the Strategic Equity Investments team, his primary responsibility was Private Equity & Black Economic Empowerment financing for the Corporate and Investment Bank.      With a very strong drive to make a difference in the broader economy, Dr. Sibiya has also recently served as Aurora Associates International Inc.’s Executive Project Manager for the multi-million dollar USAID-funded Networking and Connectivity Project.  The project involved procurement, installation, commissioning of ICT infrastructure and training at Departments of Education in four provinces around South Africa.  A second phase was subsequently awarded for 2003-2004 to Terence and his team.    Between 1999 and 2001 he set up and ran a non profit trust, Computer Education Trust (CET), from his native Swaziland with implementation subsequently spreading into many parts of Southern Africa.  The CET achieved a high degree of success and was widely recognized; CET is now part of the broader Schoolnet Africa initiative.    Terence graduated from the University of Pittsburgh (USA) with a Masters and Doctorate in Instructional Systems Design and Information Technology.  He earned his BSc degree in Information and Decision Systems from Carnegie Mellon University (USA).    ^ back to top   Hassan Musa Usman       Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, ASO Savings, Nigeria    Hassan award-winning career span over eighteen years in Finance and Investment Advisory and Privatisation Services, covering various sectors and regions.     Prior to becoming CEO of ASO, Hassan served as Executive Director (Investments) at Abuja Investment and Property Development Company Ltd., the Federal Capital Territory’s premier development agency. He has also headed key units of the Bureau of Public Enterprises, including Petrochemicals and Gas, Transport Sector Reform and Telecommunications. At Citibank Nigeria, where he worked for 7 years, until 2000, Hassan headed the Structured and Cross-border Finance Team within its Corporate Finance Group. During this time, he helped to arrange over 500 million US Dollars worth of transactions and arranged millions more in developmental loans from multilateral institutions. This followed stints managing Capital Markets and Corporate Banking relationships. Prior to Citibank, he worked for 3 years within the Financial Markets Division of Arthur Andersen S.C. London, and before then, as Research Assistant in the International Economic and Monetary Relations department of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Lagos. He has served on the boards of major corporations, including NITEL.    Hassan graduated with a BA in Economics from the University of Sussex, and an M.Phil in Development Economics from Darwin College, University of Cambridge. He is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He is also a Registered US National Association of Securities Dealers Series 7 Investment Banking Representative.   ^ back to top   Sithembumenzi (Thembie) Vuma       Head of Corporate Finance, Stanbic Bank Zimbabwe Limited, Zimbabwe   Thembie is a seasoned banker with an Economics background. Her banking experience emanates from three international financial institutions namely Standard Chartered, Citibank and the Standard Bank Group. With these institutions, she has carried out various roles in the fields of Corporate as well as Investment Banking, developing her skills in commercial & merchant banking amongst others. Her exposure in banking has been gained whilst working in territories such as Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Kenya.     She currently heads the Stanbic Bank Zimbabwe Corporate Finance unit, structuring and executing deals in a challenging market. Her determination to make a difference in her sphere of influence has prompted her, after analyzing the current environment she operates in, to structure and facilitate deals that have helped to supply vital commodities and resources to the nation.     Within Stanbic Bank, Thembie contributes to all cross-functional business activities and actively participates in the Bank’s corporate social responsibilities. She is a visionary leader that builds cohesive teams, providing the tools and motivation to exceed expectations.      Thembie is currently studying towards her Masters in Business Leadership. She enjoys traveling, plays tennis and dabbles in golf.   ^ back to top   Tracey Wesbter       Founding Member and CEO, Starfish Greathearts Foundation, South Africa    Tracey is a social entrepreneur and founding member of the Starfish Greathearts Foundation in South Africa. Starfish currently supports 20,000 orphaned and vulnerable children across South Africa.  Tracey is passionate about driving a social movement of individuals and institutions who are heightened in the awareness of the plight of orphans and determined to respond to their needs.  As CEO, Tracey has taken the organisation from being a lean mean fundraising machine, to positioning it as a development focused organisation through implementing a mentoring and training programme to capacitate community based organisations.     Prior to Starfish Tracey worked for Deutsche Bank London and worked her way up from being the Road Show Co-ordinator for Global Markets to commercial paper originator and eventually investor relations specialist.  Tracey graduated from WITS with a BA Dramatic Art Honours and spent 5 years working as a free lance actress, writer and director. Those years were spent developing productions which were performed throughout schools across Southern Africa addressing the issue of HIV/Aids, child abuse and environmental issues.    In 2004, Tracey was selected as a “Real Hero” to carry the Olympic Torch for South Africa, it was the first time the Olympic torch had ever been to the African continent. Other achievements include: attending the G8 Summit in 2005 giving voice to the plight of orphaned and vulnerable children, attending the Coca-Cola global leadership training course in Antarctica 2005, led by Robert Swan and being chosen as a Cosmopolitan Awesome Woman for 2006.   ^ back to top

Mont Fleur Faculty

Marshall Young, D Phil

Fellow in Strategic Leadership, Said Business School
Vice Chairman, Templeton College
University of Oxford
Oxford, UK

Professor Marshall Young’s career has spanned teaching, operations research consultancy, strategy consultancy, and business development for large and small companies. After a D Phil in management at New College, Oxford, and commercial experience with Scicon (BP), CAV (Lucas Industries) and The Boston Consulting Group, he joined Templeton in 1976 as Fellow in Business Policy and Quantitative Methods. In 1979, he became a Director of the strategy consultants BKA. He joined Thorn EMI Home Electronics International, then the largest division in Thorn EMI, as Business Development Director in 1985 and subsequently led a management buyout in 1990 to establish a multimedia publishing company, of which he remains Chairman. He returned to Templeton in 1995 after two years advising a multinational bank on its strategy development programme in Asia.

At Templeton he has taught and examined the University MPhil and MBA graduate programmes, but his main focus has been on the senior executive programmes. He is a former Dean and Vice President of the College. He directs, and teaches on, The Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme, a programme he has been continuously involved with since re-joining the College. He also directs and teaches on board level seminars and workshops for individual companies. He continues to consult widely with companies on leadership and strategy development.

Professor Young research interests encompass leadership development, strategy development, strategic negotiation, executive coaching, knowledge media management approaches to knowledge management, the practical implications of complexity theory for management, the benefits of electronic interactive media for senior executives, and the service sector, especially financial services and professional services. He holds a B Eng, MA and D Phil.

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Kurt A. April

PhD Professor of Leadership & Knowledge Management 
Graduate School of Business
University of Cape Town Cape Town
South Africa 

Professor Kurt A. April lectures and researches in the disciplines of Leadership, Diversity and Inclusion, and as Director of the Agents Lab in the Computer Science Department teaches & supervisors post-graduate research in Complex Adaptive Enterprises and Bayesian Knowledge Networking, and additionally teaches Organisational Diversity for Bottom-Line Effect in the Sociology Department, all at the University of Cape Town.  He is also an Associate Fellow of Saïd Business School (University of Oxford, UK), Research Fellow of Ashridge Management College (UK), regular Visiting Professor at Erasmus Rotterdam School of Management (Netherlands), and as Board Member of iNCUDISA (South Africa) fosters societal transformation and collaborates with New York University (USA) and the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands), while previously having been the Academic Director of the Center for Leadership & Public Values (CLPV), in conjunction with the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University (USA), and ran a Leadership Workshop for Harvard Business School, as part of their Making Markets Work programme. 

Outside of academia, Kurt is Managing Director of LICM Consulting (company operating globally and specialising in Leadership, Diversity, Coaching and Mentoring) and Director of Performance Through Inclusion South Africa.  He is also an Advisory Board Member of the Knowledge Management Professional Society (USA), International Advisory Council Member of Novartis (Switzerland), Advisory Board Member of Axius Publishing (South Africa), Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Management Education (USA), Editorial Board Member of the South African Journal of Business Management (SA), Member of the Sainsbury Fellows Association (UK), Member of the Mid-Western Organizational Learning Organization (USA), Member of the Academy of Management (USA), Member of the British Academy of Management (UK), Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE, USA), and Member of the Black Management Forum (SA). 

He has been educated at the University of Cape Town, having obtained the following there: PhD in IT Strategy (in conjunction with Oxford University, UK where he was the first Sainsbury Fellow), MBA, Masters degree in Electronic Engineering, Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Higher Diploma in Education; in addition, Certificate in Japanese Production (Nagoya, Japan), as well as two National Diplomas (Electronic Engineering; Logic Systems) at Wingfield College.  Prior to entering academia, Kurt worked in a number of industries: Defence Industry, Rail Transport, Nuclear Power Generation, Education, Energy Sector and Financial Services.    He currently consults, and has consulted on various projects in the areas of Knowledge Management, Strategy, Leadership and Diversity to, and behalf of, a range of industries, including:  Shell International (Europe, Asia & USA), SABMiller (SA & London), De Beers (SA, Namibia & Botswana), Old Mutual (SA), Sanlam (SA), Zurich Assurance (UK), Standard Chartered Bank (UK, Singapore, Thailand & Africa), IBM (Global), Gaiasoft (UK), AngloGold Ashanti (Global), Impala Platinum (SA), European Space Agency (Netherlands), Novartis (Switzerland), Presidential Leadership Programme for SA Government DGs, DDGs and Heads of Department, Department of Labour (Employment Equity), RWE (Germany), Lufthansa (Germany), IQ Group (SA), Thames Water (UK), Innogy (UK), Dutch Police Service (Netherlands), Trihelix (China),  and Cool Group (Netherlands).

Kurt has authored & co-authored seven books: (1) Rethinking Leadership, (2) e or b e@ten: E-business Redefining the Corporate Landscape, (3) The Knowledge Management Workbook, (4) Knowledge Management Praxis, (5) Performance Through Learning, (6) Diversity: New Realities in a Changing World, and (7) Diversity in Africa: The Coming of Age of a Continent. He is also currently researching a number of other books (Sustainable Competitive Advantage, Stewardship and Individual Well-Being, which will all come to fruition in subsequent years).  Kurt is the Editor of the Journal for Convergence, is a reviewer for the academic accredited journal, South African Journal of Business Management, is an international reviewer in the leadership and gender & diversity disciplines for the internationally acclaimed Academy of Management in the USA, and is an article- and book reviewer of the internationally accredited academic journal, Journal of Management Education (USA), and is also a book reviewer for UK-based, Financial Times, and USA-based, Emerald.

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Caryn Solomon, PhD

Head Organisation Development Investec Bank
London UK Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK  

Dr Caryn Solomon has worked and taught in the field of Organisation Development and Human Behaviour for over 20 years.   She has a BA degree in English and Philosophy, a Higher Education Diploma in English and History and a PhD in Psychology from Boston University, where she also lectured in Psychology for 6 years.  

Before moving to London 10 years ago, Dr Solomon spent 15 years in South Africa co-running Allen Zimbler Associates, a Management and Organisation Development Consultancy. During that time, she consulted to a broad array of international and South African organisations, dealing with all aspects of Organisation development and change, and specialising in leadership development, team effectiveness and the design and facilitation of broad-ranging organisational change processes relating to the transformation taking place in the country as whole.  

Working with some of the largest retail groups in the country during the 1980’s and 90’s, she introduced some the first processes to develop and integrate black South African managers, and developed a variety of unique team-building methodologies, using personal storytelling and psychodrama to confront and deal with the effects of apartheid. Some of those processes are still used in South African organisations today. 

For the last 10 years, Dr Solomon has been living London. She is Head of Organisation Development at Investec Bank, where she runs a team of internal consultants and continues to design and facilitate Leader development processes. She also lectures at the London School of Economics in Social Psychology and Organisation Development.

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Peter Wilson

Executive Director
African Leadership Institute  

Peter Wilson is the Executive Director of the African Leadership Institute (AfLI). A Rhodes Scholar from Zimbabwe, he has lived most of his life in Southern Africa. After 20 years with Shell, the last 4 in the renowned Shell International Group Planning strategic think tank, he established his own company, offering international strategy consultancy to both the public and private sector. He has built a reputation as an expert in the construction and application of scenarios for a variety of situations. For the last 13 years he has worked extensively in Africa on UN sponsored national development strategy projects and on AfLI programmes, as well on Executive Committee level corporate strategy consultations in Europe, USA and Asia for blue chip companies. Increasingly he has devoted his time to the design and development of AfLI and its programmes across Africa developing the leadership capabilities of young Africans. He is on the Board of iThemba Pharmaceuticals, a start-up South African R&D company, and is also leading a project to establish the Novartis Vaccines Institute for Global Health, which is devoted to developing vaccines for neglected diseases of the developing world. 

He graduated from the University of Cape Town with a first class honours degree in Engineering, and from Oxford University (St. Edmund Hall) with a postgraduate B.Phil in Management Studies. Peter was an international sportsman, representing South Africa at hockey, and  was awarded a “double blue” at Oxford for cricket and hockey.

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Olugbenga Adesida, PhD

Associate Director
African Leadership Institute 

Olugbenga subsequently established himself as strategy consultant and has worked for several international organizations, including the African Development Bank, United Nations Development Programme, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, World Health Organisation, United Nations Office for Project Services, Common Market for East and Southern Africa, Southern Africa Regional Institute for Policy Studies, and the African Capacity Building Foundation. He advised the government of Sierra Leone on their Vision 2025 exercise and has served as an adviser to the Government of Cape Verde since 2001. His work in Cape Verde has included design and facilitation of national forums and Cabinet retreats on economic transformation strategy, the design of strategic policy unit, and leading the drafting of their proposal for the US Millennium Challenge Account. He is currently serving as an adviser to Cape Verde’s Minister of Economy, Growth and Competitiveness on the implementation of the economic transformation strategy. In 2006, he served as an adviser to Government of Liberia and coordinated the formulation and drafting of Liberia’s interim poverty reduction strategy with the Minister of Planning and Economic Affairs.   

He co-edited the book African Voices, African Visions and served as guest editor for an issue of African Development Review on “Information, Knowledge and Africa’s Development” and co-edited a special issue of Futures on “Futures Studies and the Future of Africa.” He has refereed articles for several journals and served as a member of the international editorial board of the journal Futures from 1999 to 2001. He participated as an expert in several global projects, including those sponsored by the World Water Commission (World Water Scenarios), Foundation for the Future (Humanity 3000), and the Millennium Project (State of the Future Reports) where he was a member of the International Planning Committee from 1997 to 2005.  With Peter Wilson, he co-facilitated the South African 2020 Scenarios project and are both currently facilitating the construction of Nigeria 2025 scenarios.   

Olugbenga received his BA and MA in economics from the City College of New York and PhD from an interdisciplinary program at the London School of Economics and Political Science with a thesis on the role of intermediary institutions in the diffusion of complex technological innovations.

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Franklin Sonn, BA (Hons)
STD, FIAC Chancellor
University of the Free State Chairman,
African Star Ventures (Pty) Ltd & Cape Star Investments 

Franklin has held various offices of public prominence and leadership in academia teachers’ union, business, and politics. He is Democratic South Africa’s first ambassador to the United States (1995 – 1998). He is the recipient of thirteen honorary doctorates. He was rector of the Peninsula Technikon from 1978 to 1994, former Vice-President Business Unity South Africa (BUSA), and co-founder and full-time Director of New Africa Investment Limited (NAIL) and Corporate Africa Investments (CORPAF) until 1994. The largest Black-led company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange with assets of approximately $2.5 billion. 

Although he terminated all his directorships when he became ambassador to the USA in 1995, he is once again serving on the boards of many companies, including Airports Company of S.A. Ltd (Chairman); Absa Bank Ltd; Absa Group Ltd; SAPPI Ltd; Macsteel Service Centres 2005 (Pty) Ltd; Safmarine (Pty) Ltd; Steinhoff International Holdings Ltd;  RGA Reinsurance Co. of S.A. Ltd; Kwezi V3 Engineers (Pty) Ltd (Chairman); Ekapa Mining (Pty) Ltd (Chairman) and Pioneer Food Group, Metropolitan Holdings Ltd and others.  

He serves as trustee on The Legal Resources Trust and World Wide Fund for Nature S.A.. He is the Chancellor of the University of the Free State since 1992.   

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Mpho Letlape
Executive Director
Human Resources, ESKOM 

Mpho Letlape joined ESKOM as the Executive Director, Human Resources in December 2000. She is now the Managing Director – HR Division.  She was previously the Director of Human Resources at IBM South Africa.  Prior to joining Human Resources she was the manager of Education and Training at IBM.  She Joined IBM in December 1981 as a trainee Systems Engineer after obtaining a B.Sc. degree majoring in Computer Science and Psychology from Fort Hare University. She also studied at Wits Business School, did the Management Advancement Program Certificate in 1992 and in 1997/8 enrolled for the Masters in Management - Human Resources 

She is a board member of Institute of People Management, and a member of the Enterprise Development Forum, the Black Management Forum, the Institute of Directors, and was also Non Executive Director at Air Traffic Navigational Services from 2000 till 2003.  Mpho was given the HR Practitioner of the year 2000 award by IPM.  

She is active in her church, loves to cook and to read, loves life and people, and she adores children.  She is a couch sports fanatic, and enjoys cars.  She also loves to teach and has been invited by several universities as a guest lecturer on various occasions. 

Mpho is married to Dr Kgosi Letlape, has two daughters at university and a twelve year-old son.

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Norman Barry
Swanepoel Director
African Leadership Institute
HR Consultant 

Norman is a Human Resources (HR) Consultant with over 30 years experience and a director of the African Leadership Institute, South Africa. His experience encompasses the full range of HR plus full business board responsibilities in listed and unlisted environments.  

He started his career as a management trainee with Anglo-American in 1972. Since then he has held numerous senior level positions in a variety of Unilever brands, including HR Director for Lever-Ponds (1984-1992), Group Management Development Manager (1992-1993), HR Director Unifoods (1994-1999), and HR Director West Africa (1977-2004). He retired from Unilever in 2004 and has since then been engaged as HR Consultant on a part-time basis and increasingly involved in charity organizations. He is a volunteer for with Hillcrest Aids Centre, a Director of the African Leadership Institute, South Africa and a Champion of Students in Free Enterprise.   

Norman holds a BA (Honours) First Class from the University of Cape Town and Post Graduate Diploma from Oxford University, UK. He is a Chartered HR Practitioner (SABPP) and a Rhodes Scholar.   

Norman is Zimbabwean and resides in South Africa. He is married with two sons and an avid golf and hockey player. He likes reading, bird watching, travelling and participating in his church.

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Clem Sunter                                                                                                                 
Chairman, Anglo American’s Chairman Fund  

Clem Sunter was born in Suffolk, England and was educated at Winchester College.  He went to Oxford where he read Politics, Philosophy and Economics before joining Charter Consolidated as a management trainee in 1966. 

In 1971 he moved to Lusaka in Zambia to work for Anglo American Corporation Central Africa.  From there he was transferred in 1973 to the Head Office of Anglo American Corporation of South Africa in Johannesburg.  He spent most of his subsequent career in the Gold and Uranium Division, serving as its Chairman and CEO from 1990 to 1996.  At the time, it was the largest gold producer in the world.  He is now Chairman of the Anglo American Chairman’s Fund which in a recent survey was rated the premier corporate social responsibility fund in South Africa. 

In the early 1980s, he established a scenario planning function in Anglo with teams in London and Johannesburg.  Two members were Pierre Wack and Ted Newland who headed up scenario planning at Royal Dutch Shell and then acted as consultants to Anglo for over a decade (after their retirement from Shell).  Using material from these teams, Mr Sunter put together a presentation entitled ‘The World and South Africa in the 1990s’ which became very popular in South Africa in the mid-1980s.  In it, two scenarios were offered for South Africa:  the ‘High Road’ of negotiation leading to a political settlement and the ‘Low Road’ of confrontation leading to a civil war and a wasteland.  South Africa took the High Road.  Two highlights were a presentation to FW De Klerk and the Cabinet in 1986 and a visit to Nelson Mandela in prison to discuss the future just before his release in 1990.   

Since then he has authored and co-authored 12 books some of which have been bestsellers.  One of his recent books ‘The Mind of a Fox’ was the No. 1 selling book in South Africa in 2002, No. 2 in 2003 and is still at the top of the charts.  It deals with the methodology of scenario planning and was co-written with Chantell Ilbury.  Published in June 2001, it specifically warned President Bush in an open letter that terrorist attacks on Western cities – particularly nuclear terrorism – were the greatest threat he faced during his presidency.   

Clem Sunter’s other main interest is attempting to mobilise the private sector in South Africa in the war against HIV/AIDS. He married Margaret Rowland in 1969 and they have one daughter and two sons.  His hobbies include music and golf.  In 2004, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Cape Town for work in the scenario planning field.  Previous recipients of the award include Jan Smuts, Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Tutu.  He was also voted the best speaker in South Africa in 2004 in a poll of CEOs.

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Brian O’Connell 
Rector and Vice Chancellor
University of Western Cape 

Professor Brian O’Connell is currently Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Western Cape. A veteran of the anti-Apartheid struggle, Brian is quite passionate about the notion of digital freedom, and is a champion of putting this concept high on UWC’s research and institutional agenda. His career in education as a teacher, lecturer and administrator has spanned 32 years.  

He attended Holy Cross Primary School in Nile Street, District Six (where he was born and raised) and St Columba’s (Christian Brothers) High School in Athlone. His first tertiary qualifications – a B.A. degree and a University Education Diploma from UNISA and UWC – were geared towards teaching, and in 1970 O’Connell started his teaching career at Florida High School in Ravensmead, just a few Kilometers from UWC. In 1977, he left Florida High School to take up the post of vice-principal at Belhar Senior Secondary School. Three years later he was appointed principal of Kleinvlei Senior Secondary. He then obtained a B.A. Honours Degree in History from UNISA (with distinction), and M.A. and M.Ed Degrees from Columbia University in New York.

In 1985, he was appointed to the position of senior lecturer at UWC. He held that position until 1988 when he was appointed Rector of the Athlone College of Education, in Paarl. In 1991, he was appointed Director of the School of Education at Peninsula Technikon and also became Director of the Institutions’s Academic Development Programme. In 1994, he became acting Vice-Rector, with responsibility for Student Affairs. Before being appointed Rector of UWC, Brian O’Connell was Head of the Western Cape Education Department, from 1995 to October 2001. 

O’Connell’s contribution to education has been acknowledged and rewarded with a Fullbright Scholarship to the United States, two British Council grants and an Anglo-American Chairman’s Fund grant. In March 2002 he was appointed Professor of Leadership and Management in the Faculty of Education at UWC. 

He has published essays and articles on a wide range of educational matters. Examples of these include his inaugural address at Peninsula Technikon – entitled “Education and the Legacy of Apartheid”. Another paper, “Education Transformation: a View from the Ground”, was published in Apartheid Education and Popular Struggles. He has chaired many community organizations, and served on many boards, committees and task teams like NEPI, SAQA and NBFET.   For years he served as Chairperson of the National Access Consortium Western Cape (NACWC). He has also served on a number of community organisations and played a number of sports at provincial level. 

Brian is married to Judith, and has two children, Amanda-Leigh and Bryan.

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Judy Malan
McKinsey & Company
Archbishop Desmond Tutu Leadership Fellow (2006) 

Judy’s passion is to help groups of people achieve social and economic transformation, by helping them forge a common language where values conflict and solve problems from a systems perspective.  She sees this mutual understanding as a possible platform upon which to uplift the social system of Africa.  Judy has always enjoyed this kind of conceptual and analytical thinking, honed by her legal studies at Stellenbosch University in South Africa and then at Oxford.  She also complemented her law studies with additional courses in philosophy, one of her greatest loves.   

On finishing her studies in 1998, Judy however forsook the law to join management consultancy McKinsey & Company, out of curiosity to learn more about the business world.  She has remained with McKinsey ever since, largely because of the unique opportunities it offers to explore complex systemic challenges and resolve them.  Her work is particularly focused on making large-scale organisational transformations successful – integrating the ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ elements of organisational performance in a way that sustainably shifts the underlying mindsets driving group behaviour.  In 2004 Judy was elected a partner at McKinsey.  Unleashing the potential of people – both as individuals and as groups – is what ultimately drives her.

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Felleng Lorraine Sekha 

Founder Platinum Ring
Archbishop Desmond Tutu Leadership Fellow (2006) 

Felleng began her career with South African Mutual Assurance Society (Old Mutual) as a Legal Advisor – Corporate Law Division.  She left Old Mutual to study Electronic Communications Law in Australia. Upon her return, she joined the ANC’s Centre for the Development of Information and Telecommunication Policy (CDITP), where she was responsible for telecommunication policy research. After leaving CDITP, She joined Telekom initially as Accounts Manager and later became Regulatory Executive.  

Felleng is highly experienced in the media and telecommunications arena. Prior to joining MTN, she was Chairperson of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) which was subsequently merged with SATRA to become ICASA. She was also Chairperson of the National Telecommunications Forum, where she was actively involved in Telecommunications Policy process leading to the enactment of the South African Telecommunications Act of 1996.  

Before relocating to Nigeria in 2001, Felleng was General Manager, International Business Development, MTN International. She led the team that successfully set up MTN in Nigeria. She was resident in Nigeria until December 2005. Whilst in Nigeria she was elected Chairperson GSM Nigeria and subsequently GSM West Africa and was instrumental in the drafting of the Nigerian Telecommunications Act of 2003. She went to complete an eight month project as part of the team setting up MTN in Zambia in 2005-2006.  

She has set up and currently manages an organisation called Platinum Ring, whose aim is to create entrepreneurial and career opportunities for young South African men.  

In 2003, she was one of twenty five South Africans chosen to take part in a scenario-planning exercise, South Africa 2020. The project was designed and facilitated by the African Leadership Institute, funded by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and sponsored by the University of Western Cape. A key criterion for the selection was that the nominee would have demonstrated potential to be a future leader in South Africa. The scenarios are to be found on www.alinstitute.org, under Projects – SA2020. She was also among the 20 Africans to be awarded the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Leadership Fellowship at Oxford University in September 2006.  

She holds Law Degrees from the Universities of Lesotho and Cape Town and a Postgraduate Diploma in Media Communications and Information Technology Law from the University of Melbourne.

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