Denise Scott Brown
By way of strengthening the network aspect of the Global South Africans Project, we will be profiling one of our members each month.
This month, our first profile, is of Denise Scott Brown, architect, planner and urban designer and a founding principal of Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc .
In 2007 Ms. Scott Brown received the [...]
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 [...]
View PostSouth Africa-Washington Internship Program
The South African Washington Internship Program (SAWIP) has as its objective to prepare, inspire and support a new generation of leaders in South Africa and to provide them with the necessary skills and tools to address post-conflict challenges in the process of building a sustainable democratic society.
View PostAwesome SA
AWESOME SA has been formed to bring all South Africans together to effect the change we want to see in our country. The website states: “Only when we as individual South Africans start realising that it is up to each and every one of us to make a difference will we ever truly reach our [...]
View PostReconciliation and Development Bond
Global South African network member, Professor Daniel Bradlow, professor of law and director of the international legal studies program at American University Washington College of Law, writes about a positive use of the Reconciliation and Development Bond he has created in today’s Business Day. The Bond offers and opportunity to invest in revenue generating projects [...]
View PostCelebrate South Africa: Traditional “Braai” and our wonderful Wines
Grayhaven Winery’s annual South African Food and Wine Festival is coming up on July 11,12 and 13.
The festival’s mission is to promote South Africa, to raise awareness of South African products (wine, food and art,) promote tourism to South Africa and provide a venue for South Africans living in the U.S. to promote their US or SA [...]
Let’s work together
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.
View PostUrging the Diaspora to Stay Involved
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.
View PostJoin Us In Chicago, New York and Washington
The Global South Africans project and partners are putting on a series of events in Chicago, New York and Washington over the next couple of weeks. There’s a reception at Kendall College in Chicago on April 24, co-hosted Kendall CFO David Donnenberg and catered by the college’s famous restaurant school. We’re hosting a tea [...]
View PostA Competitive Edge
GSA Richard Rabins discusses the business advantages of being able to talk knowledgeably about cricket on his company blog — and is quoted in the Wall Street Journal.
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