Monash University South Africa Society of Politics

19/09/2015

"The best leaders not only develop us, they advocate for our future" Micheal Dooley

We must move beyond the ideal of a comfortable self focused life and answer the call to be an advocate for those who do not have one...

19/09/2015

SUCCESS is no accident....

Get a dream hold on to it and shoot to the skies l have been to the mountain top and it will take a hell of a man to knock me down, success is not final, fai...

11/06/2015

Three things you can do for your country, as an entrepreneur (Part 1)..... How important is it for you to create jobs?
Many years ago, I was given a very interesting proposal, whilst visiting a certain wealthy country:
"Would you consider moving permanently to our country?"
The man asking the question was a very senior government official, in that country.
He continued:
"If you move to our country, we will give you residence, a passport, and fast track to citizenship. We will even consider funding to support some of your ventures, that you do here."
I could hardly believe my ears; someone was actually trying to recruit me, to change my citizenship!
"Why?", I asked surprised.
"You are a proven 'job creator'. We need people like you, to come and create jobs... Entrepreneurs create jobs, and you are good at what you do. We have done our research on you....There is nothing more important for us than creating jobs for our young people."
I smiled. Thanked him politely, before declining the generous offer.I nevertheless proceeded to lead a venture that created jobs for his country.
Businesses and ventures that I have started or been involved with, over the last 29 years, as a business person, have created more than 100,000 jobs, directly and indirectly.
"Entrepreneurs create jobs"... There is nothing more important than creating jobs for our young people. I cannot imagine anything more important at the moment, and more urgent, particularly in Africa... Our very future depends on it!
Speaking recently, at an event in New York, I said:
"With 60% of our population under the age of 30 years old; creating skilled jobs for our young people, is the greatest challenge facing Africa.. Period."
The most sustainable way to create jobs is to create policies that encourage entrepreneurship, and through it investment.
We have to value our entrepreneurs, as real partners of development. We cannot choose to treat them as criminals. We must acknowledge their contributions, and celebrate them.
Some of the most successful countries in the world, actually have active programs to recruit entrepreneurs from other countries. Such is the recognition they give to people who create jobs.
Even if you employ just one person; even if that person is your daughter or nephew:
You are an employment creator, and a very important person to your country.
To be continued…

Strive Masiyiwa

11/06/2015

"My favorite poet is Aeschylus. He wrote: "In
our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by
drop upon the heart until, in our own despair,
against our will, comes wisdom through the awful
grace of God."
"What we need in Africa is not
division; what we need in the Africa is not
hatred; what we need in Africa is not
violence or lawlessness; but love and wisdom,
and compassion toward one another, and a feeling
of justice toward those who still suffer within our
great continent , whether they be white or whether they be
black. whether they be Christians or whether they be Muslims
"Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks
wrote so many years ago: to tame the
savageness of man and make gentle the life of
this world.

30/05/2015

Palesa Rose Nqambaza visits Monash South Africa

Palesa is an assistant lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations. Prior to this, she was a student assistant and tutor in the Department. In 2010 she founded a Non-Profit Organisation (Youth Moving Up), which deals with motivating and empowering young people through various social justice initiatives. She holds a BA Honors Degree in Politics and is currently completing her MA focusing on migrant domestic workers in South Africa. Her teaching at undergraduate level focuses on South African Identity Politics. Her research interests are in Politics of Identity, Gender Politics and Migration studies.
She talked about leadership and
1. How to build up an organisation
2. The place of Africa's youth in solving the problems that plague the continent
3 How to be an effective leader and how to effect change in your community

15/05/2015

Dr Stranger Kgamphe at Monash South Africa

we got a very speacial visit from a truely magnificent speaker who has a lot of vast experience and believes in Africa moving forward to be world leaders. He talked mainly about Leadership and
1. Why African scientists are not leading
2. Universities have missed the boat to lead
3 the need for more PhDs theses Not honorary degrees
4. Leadership and The new World order

Dr Stranger Kgamphe is a;

Anthropometrist and Human Biologist

Born in Phokeng,South Africa South Africa

Founder :

South African Business Excellence Model
South African Chapter of ASI-SA-NPC
Black Professional Forum(Standard Bank, SA)

Ex President/Chairperson:

Institute for the Study of Mankind in SA(ISMA)

National Consumer Forum(NCF)
South African Quality Institute(SAQI)
National Black Consumer Union(NBCU)

Ex Consultant
Alexandra Proudfoot(SA)
Visiting Professor
University of Philadelphia
University of London Ontario(CANADA)
Visiting Scientist/Researcher
UNIVERSITY of Chicago
Quality Standard Developer: PMI

11/05/2015

Christopher Hills talked to Monash South Africa

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.They are currently 9 countries on the African continent who are facing armed conflict.Is they a justification for war.According to Christopher Hills 70 % of women in war areas are combat soldiers. YES ladies and gentlemen , women in Africa are fighting these wars too. Are we looking at the growing influence of women in Africa or is empowerment just another buzz word??

30/04/2015

I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost....

The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men - cries out for universal brotherhood - for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world - millions of despairing men, women, and little children - victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.

To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. .....

Soldiers! don’t give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you - enslave you - who regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel! Who drill you - diet you - treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!

In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: “the Kingdom of God is within man” - not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people have the power - the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

Then - in the name of democracy - let us use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give men a chance to work - that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfil that promise. They never will!

Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfil that promise! Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness. Soldiers! in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

15/04/2015

Mfecane is NOT OVER...???

In 1821 Mzilikazi of the Zulu Kingdom fled north from what we know call the Mfecane Wars and settled in what we now call present day Zimbabwe (Bulawayo).

In 1822 Ndwande again of the Zulu King fled away from the Mfecane wars and landed in what we now call Mozambique and formed the Soshangane tribe.

In 1819 Zwangindaba again of the Zulu Kingdom fled the Mfecane Wars and went North and landed in present day Malawi and Tanzania.

The same applies to Sobhuza in Swaziland, Maseko in Malawi and so forth and so on.

195 YEARS LATER........

Zwelethini again of the Zulu Kingdom in his "misunderstood" statement sparked a violent outrage to chase the same tribes they chased, close to 200 years ago.

Aren't these people essentially not Zulu in origin?
Don't they belong to the Zulu Kingdom too?

History always REPEATS ITSELF

If you are not part of the SOLUTION, you are part of the PROBLEM.

SEE BELOW

Which is in 1820 and which one is in 2015 ???

15/04/2015

We Believe in the power of Knowledge it is important for us to firstly understand the history and the happenings of our continent so that we can be equipped to deal with the problems that plagues our continent. In so doing we have invited a scholar all the way from Australia to come present to us his award winning paper titled Gendered Reintegration in Post War Liberia

Christopher Hills – Doctor of Philosophy

Chris is in his second year of his PhD after completing a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) at the University of South Australia in 2012. Chris has a lengthy history working and volunteering on the African continent, from Kenya to The Gambia and several countries in between. His main research interests include West African politics, gender in Africa and the disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) of ex-combatants. His thesis focuses on the post-conflict reintegration of female ex-combatants and those associated with fighting forces in Liberia. He seeks to explore the way that reintegration has explicitly failed women and girls and also how gender roles have been reconstructed after conflict and analyses this via contemporary and historical research on the fluidity of gender roles in the region.

11/04/2015

Our big dream is for the youth of Africa to realize their potential, to see that no one is in a better place to solve the challenges that plague this continent

11/04/2015

Join the African Renaissance

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.That we here highly resolve that those that died for the liberation of all of Africa shall not have died in vain - that this continent , under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.This is about creating a new Africa about ending poverty and oppression and regaining dignity.

Goodnight