#RadicalCollaboration #PowerOfTheCircle
The Twitter Space on ‘Active Citizenry & Ageing Infrastructure’ is the second Twitter (X) discussion in the local governance campaign. Please join us on Twitter Spaces for an insightful discussion on the critical issue of dilapidated infrastructure and the role of active citizenships in addressing this challenge.
Our special guests for this discussion will be our very own Chairperson Mankone Ntsaba, Dr Sithembile Mbete, and Prof Sam Koma, an esteemed expert in the field who will share valuable insights on the impact of dilapidating infrastructure on communities and the need for collective action to drive positive change.
This conversation aims to raise awareness about the importance of active citizenship in advocating for and implementing sustainable solutions for infrastructure 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.
Professor Sam Koma
Prof Koma recently concluded an Independent Review of State of the Nation Address Commitments (SONA) 2019-2022 together with a team of experts under GIZ and the Presidency of the Republic of South Africa. He further formed part of a team of experts that developed the National Policy Development Framework commissioned by the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation n 2019. He has delivered over 50 conference papers and published over 20 articles in accredited and prestigious journals focusing on developmental local government, local economic development, corporate governance and policy analysis. Prof Koma has published and contributed to book chapters in the field of Public Administration, Governance, Local Government and Social Security.
He serves as a research cluster leader in the South African BRICS Think Tank under the National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences. He is a member of the Institute of Directors of South Africa (IoDSA) and serves as a member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Provincial Growth and Investment Council of the Northern Province Premier’s office. He recently participated at the Local Government Professionalisation Indaba as one of the Thought Leaders. He is a Director of School of Economics and Management, Faculty of Management and Law, University of Limpopo.
Dr Sithembile Mbete
Dr. Sithembile Mbete is a lecturer in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria where she lecturers international relations and South African politics. She is also an Associate Fellow of the Centre for Governance Innovation (GovInn) at the University of Pretoria. She has a doctorate from the University of Pretoria on the subject of South Africa’s foreign policy during its two elected terms in the United Nations Security Council (2007-2008 and 2011-2012). She has published on the Economic Freedom Fighters’ (EFF) in accredited journals.
Her research has been funded by the National Institute for Humanities and Social Science (NIHSS), National Research Foundation (NRF), the American Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and the Mellon Foundation. In 2014 she was a visiting scholar at the Department of Political Science and Balsillie School of International Affairs at the University of Waterloo in Canada. Sithembile is a 2019 Open Society Foundation Democracy Fellow. She is part of an international study group on the rise of populism across the world.
Mankone Ntsaba
Chairperson of Kagiso Trust. Ms Mankone Ntsaba has been with the Board of Kagiso Trust since 2009 and has served as Deputy Chair of the Board and Chair of the Programmes Committee for the last six years. She has served as a member of the Board of Kagiso Tiso Holdings (KTH), Kagiso Africa Investments (KAI) and the advisory Board of Kagiso Shanduka Trust (KST).
Beyond Kagiso Trust, Ms Ntsaba runs her own management consulting company in the water and sanitation sector. She previously worked as a researcher and consultant at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). She has also worked as a lecturer at the Universities of Zululand and Transkei. Ms Ntsaba sits on the Board of Rand Water. She is very passionate about community development and poverty eradication and has worked on various development programmes in rural areas of South Africa.