Kendall College hosts GSA and Homecoming Revolution at April 24 event
GSA David Donenberg is Kendall College’s Chief Operating Officer. The College is a premier culinary arts, hospitality management, business and education facility situated in the heart of vibrant, entrepreneurial Chicago.
GSA members, and potential members are invited to our Chicago event, co-hosted with Homecoming Revolution to be held on April 24 at 6:00 to 8:00 pm [...]
Delivering Lectures on your next visit to South Africa
GSA has heard from many groups in South Africa how they would be thrilled to have our members deliver lectures or address roundtables when you visit South Africa. Universities, Chambers of Commerce, Business support groups etc. have all said they would welcome your insights into best practices, models, business or professional challenges. So, if you [...]
View PostGSA/Homecoming Revolution Joint Events
GSA will join with Homecoming Revolution — www.homecomingrevolution.co.za on their upcoming Canada/North America trip to host several events in Chicago, New York and Washington, DC.
Homecoming Revolution tries to encourage South Africans living abroad to return home and provides support for their return. GSA recognises that some South Africans have made the US their home and [...]
Colleges of Medicine South Africa
The Colleges of Medicine South Africa (CMSA) was founded in 1954. It has provided support for doctors since then specifically by offering specialist qualifications (fellowships) recognised by the Health Professionals Council of South Africa and by offering financing, governance and infrastructure support for academic medicine.
View PostCyril Wolf
Steven Dubner, one half of the Freakonomics team, asks what Houston pensioners and South African schoolchildren have in common. The answer is Cyril Wolf, a GSA. The explanation.
View PostGeoffrey Bradfield
Geoffrey Bradfield was raised on a farm in South Africa. He proved himself as a star designer in Johannesburg before arriving in New York. Now he designs interiors for the elite in the US, Canada, Mexico and Europe. His work has included the Kennedy Library in Boston, the residences of Queen Noor of Jordan and [...]
View PostSchool Adoption
GSA members may be interested in adopting a South African school. We have been looking at options and will help members make the necessary connections. One approach is to work through the National Department of Education’s 400 Schools program, which has identified excellent candidate schools for adoption. Another is SchoolTrade, an NGO based in Kwazulu [...]
View PostReading the ANC Succession
Michael Spicer, CEO of Business Leadership South Africa and member of the IMC’s board of trustees, offers the following sober assessment of what Jacob Zuma’s election to the presidency of the ANC means for SA.
View PostWorld Beaters
The Financial Mail ran a cover story just before Christmas profiling successful South Africans overseas. Here are links to each of the individual profiles: Stanley Bergman, Vincent Mai, Gail Kelly, Manfred Gorvy, Sean Killa, Clive Calder, Marius Kloppers, Mark Weinberg, David Potter, Roelof Botha, David Altschuler, David King and Sidney Brenner. For some reason, Elon [...]
View PostCyber Mentorship
When my colleague Simon Barber visited South Africa in October, he met with some of our potential partners, including Wits’ Business School Dean, Professor Ncube and Charisse Drobis, director of WBS’ International Office. One of the ways they envisaged the GSA network helping was to support South African students in co-research opportunities and [...]
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