Activities

Re-Imagining Successful Social Development:
A Focus on the Health and Education Sectors.

The Academy has initiated projects and programmes, in the Eastern Cape, focused on training leaders through personal development, to assist them in managing independent sustainable schools and health services, thus creating a learning experience designed to promote dynamic interchange and shared learning among peers from diverse sectors, organizations and companies to encourage intellectual stimulation and engagement with peers.

Through these efforts in the Eastern Cape, Selizwe Leadership Academy has identified the urgent need for community engagement and support for the institutions in a province that can boast a good record of nurturing many professionals, intellectuals, business people and astute politicians that have contributed immensely to South Africa’s development. The irony however, is that the province is no longer viewed as successful despite its excellent contribution to human capital development of South Africa.

A nation's development and progress is shaped and conditioned through its education system. Thus, how a nation will fair in the future can be predicted by evaluating the state of its education system – from primary, secondary through to higher education. Its human capital, (or human resource) i.e. set of individuals armed with knowledge, skills and ability, gets nurtured through education especially an education system that is research oriented, is what makes up the workforce of our country.

Upcoming Events

Alumni Activism: An Untapped Resource for Nurturing Schools in Rural Communities

What must be done to make the Eastern Cape education system successful again is the question that underlies the theme of the Inaugural Selizwe Leadership Academy Conference, an event which will examine the role of those who have achieved individual success, in uplifting particularly schools in rural communities

The objectives of the conference are to introduce the idea of alumni investing in their alma mater on a collective basis by showcasing live examples of what alumni have achieved in the Colosa Senior Secondary School case study; a focus on alumni role in improving quality of education at particularly rural schools.

Delegates attending the conference will gain insight on the potential that alumni have in positively contributing to education and how to organise alumni into a formidable development oriented association. The conference is an opportunity to invest in development programmes directed at rural communities and to network with other alumni from various parts of the country to understand the underlying challenges facing education as narrated by leading experts.

Kindly note that the event has been postponed to a date in 2019 to be announced shortly.