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Ian Goldin on the role diasporas can play
Ian Goldin, director of the 21st Century School at Oxford, spoke at GSA launch in London last month. Here are his speaking notes:
The South African Diaspora played a major role in overcoming apartheid and sustaining the anti-apartheid struggle, as well as providing support to the ANC and others in exile. The return of South Africans [...]
GSA Launches in London
“Once a South African, always a South African,” Moeketsi Mosola, Acting CEO of the International Marketing Council, told guests at a dinner to launch the GSA initiative in London organised by IMC’s UK country manager John Battersby and hosted by the SA High Commission. Here is SABC’s report:
For stills of the event,
View PostRuth Lewin Comes Aboard as US Manager
Please welcome Ruth Lewin who is taking over from Lee Gillespie-White as GSA’s US Manager. Ruth has had a rich and varied career in SA’s private, public and NGO sectors, most recently heading up CSI at Discovery, the SA health insurance company. She has also held posts with the Independent Communications Authority of SA, the [...]
View PostGSA Launches In India
Global South Africans was officially launched in Mumbai on August 26 at a dinner jointly hosted by IMC and First Rand. Thirty South Africans and ten Indians with strong links to South Africa attended the dinner at the Four Seasons hotel. The agenda also included a discussion on the establishment of a South African Business [...]
View PostAndre Shearer
GSA Andre Shearer, founder of Cape Classics, the largest importer of high-end South African wines into the US, is profiled in Financial Mail. As the article notes, Andre has “for years acted as an unofficial ambassador for SA, using the wine industry to showcase the country as an investment destination through wine-tasting dinners at top [...]
View PostKZN Ebandla
If you consider yourself a daughter or son of KwaZulu-Natal, and you want to be part of the province’s success story, you’re invited to a reunion at the Harvard Club in New York on October 2.
The reunion is part of the KZN Ebandla initiative launched by the province’s premier, S’bu Ndebele, to enlist successful KZN [...]
Eco-Developer Provides Scholarships
GSA member, Donovan Neale-May has ensured that economically disadvantaged students at Rhodes University will be the beneficiaries of property sales in a new eco-estate development in South Africa’s Kwa-Zulu Natal province. Property developer Neale-May, a Rhodes University alumnus, will contribute 10 percent of the net proceeds of any property transaction in The Reeds at Balgowan [...]
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