PART 2 of Pitch Battles: Sport, racism and resistance

Just a year after the controversial D’Oliveira affair, the organised disruption of the all-white 1969/70 South African rugby and cricket tours to Britain represented a significant challenge to apartheid politics. Led by future cabinet minister Peter Hain, the ‘Stop the Seventy Tour’ campaign brought about the cancellation of both tours, presaging white South Africa’s expulsion from the Olympics and the end of apartheid sport altogether.

Title:                   [• Mr.]   

Name:                 [• (Lord) Peter Hain ] 

Position at organisation:  [• Co-author of Pitch Battles: Sport, racism and resistance]

Gabriella Nechama Farber is a Jewish activist, an ANC deployee in the Wits SRC 2021 committee as a legal officer. She sits on the national committee of the ANC Women’s League Young Women’s Desk’s health subcommittee.     

Gabi went to Yeshiva College (a religious Jewish only girls high school) and then went on to a women’s seminary in the old city of Jerusalem to study Jewish religious text.

Title:       [• Ms. ]   

Name:        [• Gabriella  ] 

Position at organisation:  [• Independent Political Analyst]

Title:            [• Mr]   

Name:                      [• Mike Mpanya ] 

Position at organisation:  [• Youth minister, activist, writer and poet, mentor and a  proponent of Pan- Africanism]

Last year, Adcock Ingram OTC started a campaign looking for the ordinary South African healthcare providers in pharmacies. The Sponsors of Brave campaign aims to celebrate these unsung heroes of brave, professionals who walk the extra mile attending to the medical and healthcare needs in their communities making a real impact

Title:                   [• Ms.]   

Name:                 [• Kelly Robinson   ] 

Position at organisation:  [• Co-owner of Tyrone Pharmacy ]

Title:                   [• Mr.]   

Name:                 [• Rakesh Daya ] 

Position at organisation:  [•  Pharmacist at Nikita’s pharmacy in Lenasia ]

Title:                   [• Mr.]   

Name:                 [•  Thahier  Alli ] 

Position at organisation:  [• Pharmacist and owner of Atlantis Pharmacy  ]

Stokfolio is a continuous crowd funding  model designed by Fincamp for its participants to build a passive income portfolio from small businesses using their Stokvel savings.  Founded by a former investment banker-turned-entrepreneur, the rules of engagement are being rewritten as far as connecting startups with funding opportunities.

We’re in conversation with Founding CEO of Fincamp, Thandeka Buthelezi, and she is matching startups operating in the manufacturing sector with the R44 billion generated by stokvels per year in South Africa. She says interactions between stokvels and startups will address the lack of financial literacy confidence in global communities and also the barriers and inadequacies of startup funding.

Title:            [• Ms.]   

Name:                      [• Thandeka Buthelezi ] 

Position at organisation:  [•  A chief green tea drinker with all sorts of crazy ideas AND the Founding CEO of Fincamp   ]

By easing some of the industrialization constraints, the regional economy can generate more than sufficient jobs and reduce the youth unemployment rate. This is according to Lebo Letsoalo, founder and Managing Director of SINCPOINT.

Title:            [• Ms]   

Name:                      [• Lebo Letsoalo ] 

Position at organisation:  [• Founder and Managing Director of SINCPOINT]

Nkandla

Angie Motshekga is acting president of the republic

The reinstatement of the UIF covid-19 Ters scheme

Jacob Zuma’s application for a rescission of his 15-month sentence

 Title:       [• Dr. (Mr) ]   

Name:        [• Metji Makgoba ] 

Position at organisation:  [• Independent Political Analyst]