Here are a few of the initiatives I’m a part of now to make my contribution to the change we want to see in the world:
Angamma
Angamma is a South African Public Benefit Organisation (PBO); its immediate beneficiaries are the local communities whose land and resources it shares. Angamma brings together a team of experts—including activists, psychologists, lawyers, healers, scholars and journalists—that seek to create a safe space for the discussion, exploration and expansion of new forms of consciousness. Our purpose is to explore and understand what it means to be human, and to seek alternative solutions to our shared environmental, economic and social crises. Only a collective change of consciousness, leading to co-operative action, will ensure a future for our children.
– Connecting head, heart and spirit –
As one of the founders and trustees of the Earthrise Trust I have enjoyed the co-creation of a new way of doing community and social development. We are building an innovation hub with the local community, Nadeli Village. This is a social development initiative that provides opportunities for sustainable livelihoods, as well as access to quality healthcare and education. You can read a little about what we are doing with Earthrise Trust in Rustlers valley here:
Creating livelihoods: The birth of a new Naledi Village on Rustlers Valley farm
For more visit the website.
I’m working with some impressive people as a member of the board of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation. Through the foundation we focus on defining, assessing and enhancing governance and leadership in Africa.
For more visit the website.
Supporting this excellent Pan-African movement of people and formations, working for peace, justice and dignity is something I’m really passionate about. Africans coming together to support each other for justice in this intergenerational initiative is inspiring and exciting to be a part of. As a movement we are determined to foster an Africa-wide solidarity and unity of purpose of the Peoples of Africa to build the Future we want – a right to peace, social inclusion and shared prosperity.
For more visit the website.
Just Energy Future
The world’s environmental, humanitarian and developmental challenges have converged. It is time for urgent action. Trade unions, social organisations, students and ordinary citizens must be encouraged to fight for an ethical social and energy transition that embraces zero carbon, zero poverty and zero inequality paradigms. We must come together to protect Mother Nature our only home.
That is why I’m also involved in working towards a just energy future. We are bringing together a broad group of actors with the common goal of a clean energy future for South Africa. Working with civil society, the finance sector and experts in the area of clean energy it’s an exciting to be a part of this.
Who exactly is Just Energy Future?
We are a movement of active citizens in South Africa committed to promoting clean, affordable, reliable, safe energy access for all South Africans. Given the fundamental corruption and other risks brought about by the government’s insistence on having nuclear as part of our energy mix, the Campaign for a Just Energy Future campaign is committed to stopping the nuclear deal as our first priority, so that a just energy future for all South Africans particularly the poor and vulnerable can be achieved. A considerable increase in renewable energy is consistent with the demands of an effective response to climate change and in meeting South Africa’s International Climate commitments. This is a means to grow the economy and increase socio-economic benefits for all. We need to hold our leaders accountable for the decisions that are being made in terms of our energy future.
For more, visit the website.
