Guest: Kholofelo Mphahlele - Researcher at Section 27

Guest: Mrs Ipeleng Mkhari, CEO of Motseng Investment Holding

Guest: Ms Portia Tau Sekati, CEO of Property Sector Charter Counci

Guest: Ms Fundi Mazibuko, Vice – President South African Institute of Black Property

Axolile Notywala is an activist and the former general secretary of the Social Justice Coalition, a grassroots social-movement campaigning for safe, healthy, and dignified communities in some of South Africa’s most underdeveloped townships. He is a 2015 alumnus of the Building Bridges Leading in Public Life Programme of the University of Cape Town, a 2016 Mandela Washington Fellow and has served on boards and advisory committees of organisations such as My Vote Counts, Equal Education, the Black Sash and the South Africa Human Rights Commission. Axolile is currently earning a B.A. in Political Leadership and Citizenship at the University of South Africa.

He has fought for justice and equality in South Africa over many years, often at a great price. The challenges to his activism have been frequent and sometimes harsh. In 2013 he and other members of the Social Justice Coalition were staging a peaceful protest in Cape Town demanding clean, safe, and dignified living conditions for all citizens when they were arrested and eventually put on trial. Not only were they found not guilty, but the court historically ruled that South Africa citizens have a right to protest.

Axolile was arrested yet again on 11 April 2020 during the COVID-19 lockdown for questioning why police were illegally and inhumanely evicting people during the lockdown in Empolweni, Khayelitsha

Guests: Mr Thapelo Mohapi - General Secretary of Abahlali baseMjondolo 

What started out as an LLM in the Department of Private Law under the supervision of Professor Hanri Mostert in 2018 has instead ended with Rebecca graduating with a PhD during this March 2022 graduation season. Thanks to the extensive work she put into her dissertation on artisanal mining, she was accepted for the rare opportunity to upgrade from an LLM to a PhD.

Professor Mostert said that upon reading Rebecca’s thesis around the end of 2020, she felt it was far beyond what was expected of a master’s thesis. Rebecca –Lee joins us to speak more on her thesis and her work at ENS.

Guest: Ms Rebecca-Lee Pein 

Not surprisingly, the current pandemic has led many people to wonder about quite a number of things and career paths being one of them. Whilst others have been retrenched, others took the opportunity to re-valuate their chosen career paths against the backdrop of finding fulfilling occupations and making that transitions. One such man is Amaury David – A french Native, currently in the City of Cape Town on a working holiday, and this is his story

Guest : Amaury David 

Guest: Henry Lukenge - The founder of Nido Trust (the trust that will fund the institute) and Trident Engineering Institute.

GUEST: Nosipho Hlatshwayo - Programme Manager at the South African Cities Network

GUEST: Dr. Nompumelelo Obokoh -General Manager for Bioeconomy at The Innovation Hub

GUEST: Dr Comfort Shaba- Mampane – Neurologist

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Prof Mammo Muchie - Analyst on Africa