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  • 02/27 What's your story with Michael Charton

    02/27 What's your story with Michael Charton
    Jun 24 2021
    In this second of 27 Over The Rainbow conversations I talk to Michael Charton, a researcher, historian, and storyteller extraordinaire. Michael qualified as a chartered accountant and spent time in a financial advisory role in the United States. He returned to Cape Town in 2007 where, during a short career in advertising, he was awoken to the art and power of storytelling. In 2010, he began telling South African stories and by 2015, had developed and told a number of original, non-fiction stories that drew their inspiration from South Africa’s unique history. That passion for South Africa’s past eventually saw him resign as a financial director and launched an enterprise in 2015 called Inherit South African which was founded on the sharing of untold, and often incredible stories from the past – but whose re-telling would have the goal of and nation-building, but in a way that would also entertain and enlighten those who would hear them.
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    58 m
  • 01/27 We the people with Lwando Xaso

    01/27 We the people with Lwando Xaso
    Jun 22 2021
    In this first of 27 conversations about a new brand of South African leadership, I talk to historian, author, constitutional lawyer and entrepreneur (among other things), Lwando Xaso. Lwando obtained her law degree from the University of Johannesburg in 2005, after which she started her articles and practised at Norton Rose Fulbright until 2009. She then pursued a master’s degree in constitutional and administrative law at the University of Cape Town where she also worked as a researcher. In 2011 she had the privilege of clerking for Justice Edwin Cameron at the Constitutional Court. In that year she also contributed to the book One Law, One Nation which describes the history of the South African Constitution. She frequently writes on topics of constitutional law, history and culture for the Daily Maverick and other publications. In 2012 she was awarded the Franklin Thomas Fellowship by the Constitutional Court Trust to study at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana where, in 2013, she received an LLM in international law, graduating Magna Cum Laude. In 2013 she worked as a senior researcher for the Public Service Remuneration Review Commission tasked with the transformation of the public service and was also a researcher to former Chief Justice Sandile Ngcobo. At present she works with the Constitution Hill Trust focusing primarily on projects such as the museum of the Constitution which is currently under development. She is also a trustee of the Constitutional Court Trust and is the founder and owner of Including Society, a forum established to explore issues around cultural justice, belonging and inclusion. Lwando on Daily Maverick · Including Society
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    1 h y 16 m
  • Welcome to Over The Rainbow

    Welcome to Over The Rainbow
    May 12 2021
    A few weeks ago we celebrated Freedom Day here in South Africa. It's always a significant day. But this last one felt, I don't know, even more so. On April 27 2021, we marked 27 years since 1994. 27 years since all South Africans could vote together for the first time. 27 years since our unprecedented and quite miraculous transition to a democracy. 27 years 27 years the amount of time we kept former President Nelson Mandela in prison. 27 years since Archbishop Tutu coined the phrase, the rainbow nation. 27, which also happens to be our international dialling code. It should have been a significant marker for progress. But there's a sense that we're all feeling a bit well, over it - over the rainbow. It feels like we've done a pretty poor job of delivering on that vision. Instead of flourishing, we're floundering. The worst off most oppressed, marginalized, South Africans, our compatriots, remain so. How did we go so wrong? And can we get it back? And if so, how? It's these questions that inspired the over the rainbow project. You see, I believe a large part of our problem is a failure in leadership. And not just government, not just political leadership, business leadership, leadership in the media, leadership in civil society. We need a new brand of leadership, we need new principles - for leadership. It's time, I believe, that we committed to leading in the interests of creating a country for our children, not in lining our own pockets. I don't want to stand by and watch another 27 years pass and not have made at least a small attempt to ensure they don't look like the last 27 years or god forbid that 27 years before that. I hope through this process to learn to unlearn and to relearn what it really means to be South African and what treasures might yet lie - over the rainbow.
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    4 m