Birth: 1965
In Durban, where I was born and grew up, and all over Africa, Nelson Mandela was a hero! Now he is a hero to the world..
Sandy was a climate change warning. Obama must now take the stage and fulfil the promise of hope the world needs..
With an agenda dominated by global security and U.N. reform, it appears that the decisions needed to lift millions of people from abject poverty are ….
Nelson Mandela once said "I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I'm not going to protest.".
Nelson's Mandela own sense of himself was a very humble reading, [different] from how the world read him. And, quite often, you had the sense that he….
Nelson Mandela also spoke about how, as a human being, he's made mistakes..
Whenever anybody called Nelson Mandela a saint, he would say: "If by saint you mean a sinner who is trying to be better, then I'm a saint.".
If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be doing much more to take more pe….
I think even though he [Nelson Mandela] was feted and praised as he was, he always was at pains to say, I'm a human being..
Currently, we allow our political and business leaders to get away with murder. Now is the time to change that. We need direct liability for those wh….
[Nelson] Mandela was very keen not to be understood as an exceptional person..
I've come across a lot of people in my life who talk about poverty and talk about the poor, but you rarely have a sense that it matters to them to th….
One of the things that I noticed with my own eyes was Nelson Mandela ability to engage with kings and queens and heads of state on the one hand, and ….
I first met Nelson Mandela when I was in my late 20s, in 1993. I was helping facilitate an African National Congress (ANC) workshop to plan its media….
The city of Copenhagen is a climate crime scene tonight, with the guilty men and women fleeing to the airport in shame. World leaders had a once in a….
Nelson Mandela was just a human being, a person like other people, and everyone relaxed. Within a minute, that sort of thing about the leader and the….
I was 15 years old when I first heard the name Mandela, or Madiba, as he is fondly known in Africa. In apartheid South Africa he was public enemy num….
Many people theorize poverty, but so many elements of poverty, individually, for most people who theorize about poverty would be really difficult to ….
This week we saw progressive business and faith leaders making strong commitments that are moving ahead of what world leaders promised today. The lea….
Struggles only move forward when decent men and women step forward and say, 'enough is enough and no more.'.
The Social License is fundamentally about accountability to people and not just powerful interests. John Morrison’s book reminds all organizations – ….