See the world in aid of the NICRO UK Trust
From China to Northumberland, Iceland to Paris, Tanzania to South Africa… you can see it all with the NICRO UK Trust!
Whatever your New Years resolutions for 2009… Commit to getting fit, Be more adventurous or Do some charity work… you can do it all with the NICRO UK Trust Open Challenges! Experience exciting destinations, achieve [...]
Twittering
Global South Africans is now on Twitter, looking to follow and be followed by anyone interested in the project. You can find us here.
View PostSA in early 2009: an assessment
In an important address at Chatham House in London on January 23, Michael Spicer, CEO of Business Leadership South Africa, International Marketing Council trustee and former executive vice president of Anglo American plc, gave a candid of assessment of the state of play in South Africa on the eve of elections. Here is the [...]
View PostIan 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:
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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 [...]
