The View Point

Masehletse Lucy Balimba is an Economic Sociologist who spent the last 10, out of her 14 years of work experience, building strategic knowledge over a range of specialist communications areas. She has had experience providing strategic advice to a dynamic portfolio of JSE, FTSE 100 and NSE listed and unlisted clients on a range of issues that include strategic brand positioning, corporate M&As, stakeholder relations and crisis management.Lucy’s contribution in strategic communications can be defined as agile and shapeshifting.

She has provided strategic communication advice to a dynamic portfolio of JSE and FTSE

100 companies and their executive leadership teams on a range of communication areas

that include brand positioning, mergers and acquisitions (including the Walmart Massmart deal in 2011 and the $16.2bn Absa-Barclays deal in 2012), stakeholder relations and crisis management. Known for her work in cultivating positive and healthier socio-economic narratives about Africa, At Entelo, Lucy uses powerful communication methodology to draw CEOs, organisations, and impact-institutions to catalytic solutions for sustainable value creation.

Guest: Lucy Balimba  CEO of Entele Strategic Communications

– #TheTakeover

Is there hope, in today’s South Africa, for a restorative counter- narrative that speaks of this

country and its potential from a place of celebration and not of pain?

For the climate justice colleague in the room - If we were to picture South Africa as a frozen sea, what would you say is the axe we need to begin the work of breaking the ice?

 Tumy Motsoatsoe Founder and MD – Ayama Creatives Sentle Nell  Position Sustainability expert ]

In what can be described as a golden feather in the cap of Stellenbosch University's (SU) fast-expanding international collaborations, SU's Faculties of Law and of Economic and Management Sciences have partnered with the prestigious Harvard Law School's Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP) in the United States to host the Global Scholars Academy (GSA) in South Africa.

This initiative, which is currently underway at Stellenbosch, brings together both distinguished and young scholars from all over the world to debate some of the world's most pressing issues in the field of international law, policy, and economics.

GUEST Prof. Mr.David Kennedy Director of the Institute for Global Law and Policy 

GUEST: PROF INNOCENT PIKIRAYI

MAARIF CENTRE FOR TURKISH STUDIES

GUEST: DR RHODA MALGAS

GUEST: LAWSON NAIDOO

GUEST: PROF. ABDOOL KARIM

Bonang Mohale is a highly respected businessman, known as much for his patriotism as for his active role in advancing South Africa's interests. Mr Mohale has an impressive track record of building successful companies, delivering results and making significant advances in transformation in the companies he has been involved in. He has been a vocal courageous and active proponent of transformation since the 1980s, and played a leadership role in the Black Management Forum (BMF) for over 33 years.

Bonang Mohale is currently the Vice Chancello of the University of the Free State, former CEO of Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA). Mr Mohale ended a distinguished term as Vice President Upstream and Chairman of Shell South Africa (Pty) Limited at the end of June.

Guest: Bonang Mohale :  VC - University of the Free State AND President of BUSA (Business Unity South Africa) 

Guest: Kolosa Madikizela: Managing Director for Africa at Pragma Global]

It is said that a man cries from the inside. But what does a man who is going through a depressive state do when society tells us that men are weaklings for talking about thier problems? They go through life in an illusion. Many of them are living as if they have lost any cognisance of who they are.

We’re in conversation with Sivuyile Msengana, and he will share his story of being a reluctant healer and how he

Guest:  Sivuyile Msengana

Rwanda is 4,000 miles from the United Kingdom. Yet this does not deter the UK government from carrying out its plan in which asylum seekers deemed to have arrived illegally in the UK may be relocated to Rwanda. This plan was given the green light by the UK High Court in December.

The UK-Rwanda asylum plan was controversial from the start. Human rights activists globally condemned the plan. Some decried it as “a threat to the welfare of vulnerable people”.

GUEST : Musa Mdunge

Guest: Prof. Sampson Mamphweli, Director for the Centre for Renewable and Sustainable Energy Studies (CRSES) át Stellenbosch University   

Stellenbosch University recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Teesside University, in England, to become a research partner in initiatives to advance the use of green hydrogen as an energy source. The main focus is the production of green hydrogen, which is produced by electrolysis of water using renewable energy resources such as solar and wind energy. 

This MoU forms part of  President Cyril Ramaphosa’s recent State visit to the UK and has allocated an initial R12-million towards establishing research expertise in the field. These research activities are said to help South Africa with technology localisation, as well as industrialisation using the hydrogen economy.