#RadicalCollaboration #PowerOfTheCircle
The Twitter Space on ‘The Importance of Active Citizenship in South Africa’ is the first Twitter discussion in the Kagiso Trust’s #RadicalCollboration local governance campaign series. Twitter Space aims to drive meaningful discussions and encourage the public to become active participants in addressing the challenges faced by municipalities nationwide.
The discussion will provide a platform for citizens to share their perspectives and insights on the transformative power of the active citizenry. The discussion will emphasize how individual and collective engagement can influence the composition of local governments and foster community-centric development.
Official Hashtag: #RadicalCollaboration #PowerOfTheCircle
Official Account: Facebook: Kagiso Trust Twitter: @Kagiso_Trust
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Speaker Bio’s
Khaya Sithole CA (SA)
Profession: Chartered accountant, academic, activist, radio broadcaster & writer.
Indepedent Facilitator
Khaya S Sithole – Chartered accountant, academic, activist, radio broadcaster, and writer. He served as the resident political and financial analyst, writer and talk show host on Kaya FM and Power FM and is a regular contributor on politics and finance for eNCA, Open News and the SABC and has written weekly columns for the Business Day, the Mail & Guardian and Fin24.
Zukiswa Kota
Programme Manager at the Public Service Accountability Monitor, Rhodes University.
She has more than ten years’ experience in research for social advocacy as well as scientific, academic purposes, Public resource and expenditure monitoring skills, budget analysis, strategic plan evaluation, research and advocacy. Her specialties include research, civil society advocacy, monitoring and research, project management, residence administration, and promotions. The PSAM promotes social accountability in Africa with a focus on South Africa, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique and Malawi. Zukiswa is the Coordinator of Imali Yethu, a civil society coalition working with the South African National Treasury to develop South Africa’s first online portal for provincial and national budget data, vulekamali. She serves on the Board of Trustees of the Equal Education Law Centre (EELC). She has contributed to various budget and social justice initiatives, including the Budget and Expenditure Monitoring Forum (BEMF) and the Budget Justice Coalition. Zukiswa is passionate about promoting environmental justice and inclusive, open governance in Africa.
Marlene Ogawa
Marlene Ogawa Country Director, Synergos.
Marlene is a passionate facilitator who has worked within the private sector, and NGOs globally and the government of South Africa. Her expertise is in designing and implementing adult learning and sharing interventions addressing both micro and macro needs. She works across various leadership and collaboration initiatives which build on the principles of Theory U and relational leadership. She strategically designs and holds space using various methodologies including World Café and Open Space Technology. Marlene works in leadership, organisational and team transformation work with diverse public, private and civil society sectors as well as academia, using Appreciative Inquiry. Over the years Marlene has supported cross and multisectoral collaborations towards systemic change and institutional redress through journeying with, project management and facilitating collaborations and gatherings with diverse sectoral groups and communities. Her work at Synergos focuses on bridging leadership through individual and collective transformation, trust building processes, systems thinking.ucator development, education research and instructional leadership.
Paul Smith
Local Government Support head, Kagiso Trust.
Paul has consulted into the Local Government sphere government since 1997 and has headed up the Kagiso Trust Local Governance program since 2010. Paul’s role in Kagiso Trust is to both manage consultancy business and continually innovate new approaches to local government sustainability and strengthening local governance structures to enable stakeholders to be collaborative in finding effective solutions that impact their communities. Beyond KT Paul is a qualified business leadership coach, P2 project management practitioner and a graduate from Gibs and Said – Oxford University executive leadership program. Over the past 34 years Paul has implemented a radical collaboration project in Makana Municipality using radical collaboration as a mechanism systemically influence the way communities and government engage and ideate to solve local issues. Paul is committed to supporting communities and local government to dismantle polarization and enabling collaboration and catalyst for positive systemic change.