South Africa’s US Ambassador Welile Nhlapo hosted Global South Africans at a lunch at the embassy on Thursday, May 1. He called the GSA project “a very positive trend in the life of our country”. He spoke following presentations by GSA’s Simon Barber, Homecoming Revolution’s Martine Schaffer and Guy Lundy of Accelerate Cape Town.

Guy Lundy, CEO of Accelerate Cape Town, speaks at the GSA event at Kendall College in Chicago on April 24. To his right is Martine Shaffer of Homecoming Revolution.