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Circle of Excellence Principals’ Conference 2014

CONTENTS■ The Foundation ................................................................. 3

■ The Fellowship .................................................................. 4

■ Circle of Excellence ........................................................... 5

■ Keynote Speakers: From School to National Influence: Dr Bridgette Gasa ..... 7

Excellence in Education: Dr Sizwe Mabizela ...................... 8 Approaches to Community and

School Engagement: Ms Diana Hornby.............................. 9

■ School Collaborations: Mr Craig Bruce Andrew, Kingswood College .................. 10 Mr Tim Barnard, Teacher and Community

Engagement Officer, St Andrew’s College ....................... 10 Ms Heidi Salzwedel, Design and Technology

Teacher, St Andrew’s College .......................................... 11

■ Catalysing Ethics and Ethical Leadership in Schools and Existential Conversations: Prof. Pedro Tabensky ......12

■ Preparing Young People for Life, Entrepreneurship and Work in the Global Economy: Dr Jonathan Marks | Ms Julie Williamson | Mr Bruce Damons ........................... 13

■ Fellow Contributions ....................................................... 14

■ The Foundation Team ..................................................... 16

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The Foundation

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AGOFoundation

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n is our people - Investing in GreatnessThe Foundation emerged from the vision of

Mr Allan Gray to make a sustainable long-term contribution to Southern Africa. The Foundation is of the firm belief that high-impact, responsible entrepreneurs will dramatically contribute to positive economic, social and political change. The Foundation therefore identifies, selects and invests in potential greatness over the long-term through its Scholarship and Fellowship opportunities.

The Foundation’s investment approach provides access to education alongside personal leadership and entrepreneurial mindset development. Once formal education is completed the Foundation encourages work experience that complements its Fellows’ personal passion and purpose along with growing relevant skills. It is the Foundation’s hope that Fellows will then move into areas of influence where they will effect lasting change and positive impact.

E2 venture capital fund is partnering with the Foundation in South Africa to fund eligible Allan Gray Fellows’ entrepreneurial ventures in the future.

Mission

To promote progress through entrepreneurship in an integrated Southern Africa by fostering high-impact, responsible entrepreneurs.

Vision

In the coming years there will emerge from diverse communities a new generation of high-impact, responsible entrepreneurs; individuals of passion, integrity and innovation who will be at the forefront of the continuing economic and social transforma-tion of this region.

These individuals will be ambassadors of the power of initiative, determination and excellence, acting as role models, that many more may follow in their pioneering footsteps.

Ethos

The Foundation’s ethos, or shared fundamentals, is made up of its tactical focus on Education and Experience complemented by the personal traits of Effort and Ethics.

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The Fellowship

The Allan Gray Fellowship is an opportunity that provides access to university education, which

includes comprehensive tertiary financial support to selected students, known as Candidate Allan Gray Fellows.

The Fellowship is the most comprehensive and stimulating university scholarship opportunity in South Africa. The Fellowship’s entrepreneurial and personal development programme runs throughout the academic year alongside the Candidate Allan Gray Fellow’s university studies. The programme includes seminars, guest speakers, experiential learning activities and project-based learning deliverables.

The Fellowship covers the following:

■■ Full cost of university tuition

■■ Full cost of accommodation plus meal, book and tutor allowances

■■ A monthly living stipend

■■ Academic support and access to an entrepre-neurial and personal leadership programme

■■ Mentorship, both from individually assigned Foundation employed staff, as well as industry specific Mentors

■■ Access to potential postgraduate funding for graduated Fellows

■■ No postgraduate contractual obligations

All applicants are expected to exhibit an entre-preneurial attitude and a belief in the future of South Africa. Applicants need to be ambassadors for the Foundation‘s values of intelligence, imagination, courage and commitment. They must strive towards excellence and display strength of character and personal motivation.

Here is an example of some of the Foundation’s Entrepreneurial Programme activities:


Circle of Excellence


The Foundation believes that holistic quality education is an important part of developing responsible entre-

preneurs. Education is therefore a core part of the model used for long-term investment in Allan Gray Scholars and Candidate Allan Gray Fellows.

The Circle of Excellence network is a Foundation initiative that was launched in 2008 to identify and honour South Africa’s top secondary schools for their excellence in education and their consistent delivery of successful candidates to the Fellowship. The Circle of Excellence Schools also provides the pool from which the placement schools for the Scholarship are chosen. It is a partnership seeking to strategically support and encourage institutions of educational excellence in South Africa, which are critical to the region’s collective futures.

The Circle of Excellence Conference is an annual event to celebrate and further empower the schools within the network. The principals of each of the 2014 Circle of Excellence Schools were invited to attend the event at Rhodes University.

In keeping with the theme Shifting from Excellence to Influence, the 2014 principals’ conference will explore opportunities to establish schools as entrepreneurial pipelines. The conference aimed to achieve the following:

■■ Unpack the underlying knowledge, experience, personal attributes and competencies of high school learners with strong entrepreneurial leadership orientation;

■■ Engage with Allan Gray Fellows and Candidate Fellows who epitomise this emerging entrepreneurial leadership profile

■■ Learn from thought leaders on how to prepare young people for life, entrepreneurship and work in a global economy;

■■ Interact with the Allan Gray Centre for Leadership Ethics and how they catalyse ethics/ethical leadership; and

■■ Understand how to take this learning forward and what it means for your school on ‘Monday Morning’.

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Guest Speakers

Dr Gasa is a board member of the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation and holds a Bachelor of

Building Arts in Architecture (University of Port Elizabeth) as well as a cum-laude Postgraduate Diploma in Project Management from the Training for Management College (Newport University, United States). She also holds a Certificate in Project Management for the Public Sector (University of Stellenbosch), a Master’s degree in Project Management (University of Natal), a Construction Management Programme qualification (University of Stellenbosch) and a Global Executive Development Programme Certificate through the Gordon’s Institute of Business Science (GIBS). She completed her PhD in Construction Management with the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University.

Dr Gasa is an Architectural practitioner, affiliated with many well-known professional associations, which include Project Management South Africa (PMSA) and the Institute of Directors (IOD). She is both a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building

(CIOB Africa) as well as its Past President for the Africa Region. She serves on a number of Boards both nationally and internationally. In May 2010 Dr Gasa was appointed by the President of South Africa, J.G. Zuma, to serve as a National Planning Commissioner. Dr Gasa is the 2008 recipient of the Department of Science and Technology Award for a Leading Woman Scientist in Industry. She is also

From School to National Influence: Dr Bridgette Gasa, Foundation Board Membera recipient of SA’s most influential business woman in basic industries, an award which was conferred on her in 2013.

As Founder and Managing Director of The Elilox Group, Dr Gaza focuses on Programme and Project Management Consulting, Infrastructure Planning and Development, as well as Agricultural Enterprises.

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Dr Mabizela was born and raised in Baldaskraal, in Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal. In 2008 Dr Mabizela was appointed as Deputy Vice Chancellor of Academic and

Student Affairs at Rhodes University. He is currently Vice Chancellor at Rhodes University. Prior to assuming this position he was the Professor and Head of Department of Mathematics at Rhodes University.

Dr Mabizela completed his BSc Honours and Master’s degrees in Mathematics at the University of Fort Hare. His PhD thesis titled Parametric Approximation was completed under the supervision of Professor Frank Deutsch in 1991. His research field is Abstract Approximation Theory, a subfield of Functional Analysis. He has collaborators in the USA, Australia, Israel, China and Korea. He is also a member of the South African Mathematics Olympiad Committee. The Minister of Basic Education, Mrs Angie Motshekga, has appointed Dr Mabizela as the Chairperson of the Umalusi Council for Quality Assurance in General and Further Education and Training.

Excellence in Education: Dr Sizwe Mabizela, Vice Chancellor, Rhodes University and Chairperson of the Umalusi Council and International Mathematics Olympiad

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Guest Speakers

Approaches to Community and School Engagement: Ms Diana Hornby, Director, Rhodes University

Ms Hornby was appointed Director of Community Engagement at Rhodes University in January

2011. She has 17 years’ experience in the Early Childhood and Community Development field.

She directed the Centre for Social Development at Rhodes University for six years and in this time developed a best-practice ECD model that received national recognition. Ms Hornby was also part of a team that establishing a national network for 70 ECD NPO’s in the country.

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In 2007 she took over the Angus Gillis Foundation (name changed to Ubunye Foundation), a rural development NPO with a strong focus on Pro-poor models of development, winning SA’s Most Influential Women in Business and Government Award (Welfare and Community Service) for her work.

She has a BEd Honours from Rhodes University and a Master’s degree in Social Science from Fort Hare University.


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School Collaborations

Mr Craig Bruce Andrew, Kingswood College

Mr Bruce has been associated with Kingswood College since 1977 when he started as a

Student Assistant in Jagger House at the tender age of 19. He spent five years at Kingswood College as a Student Assistant - the last three years in Wood House - and then after doing his compulsory Military Training at Oudtshoorn and then in Namibia, he took up a post at KC as a Geography and Physical Education teacher. He taught at KC for a further 5 years ending up as Head of Geography and Physical Education and as the Housemaster of Chubb House. He then spent a year teaching at the new Bisho LEAF Private School and another year at Michaelhouse School in the Natal Midlands. In 1990 he returned to Grahamstown to launch the national Gold Shield Award nationally in South Africa.

Mr Tim Barnard, Teacher and Community Engagement Officer, St Andrew’s College

Mr Barnard is a schoolmaster

who loves playing a role in influencing the well-educated, connected, and fully aware individuals, who believe in themselves and their stake in their future.

After a brief spell as a research scientist, Mr Barnard started teaching in a rural school in the Transkei,

learning to teach almost every subject under the sun under the benign influence of a passionate and committed principal. After a brief spell in school management, he took up a position in St Andrew’s College’s innovative Design and Technology Department, where he remains active, teaching from Grade 4 to Matric. Spells of top-level sport coaching and house mastering were followed by taking on the role of community engagement officer.

This role acknowledges that only the fully engaged can be fully developed, whether it is through academic extension programmes, or leading President’s Award hikes and that only mutual benefit will ensure sustain-ability of projects and programmes.

Mr Bruce has been a part of the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award structures for the past twenty seven years. He began as an Award volunteer in 1986 at Kingswood College in Grahamstown, served as a Trustee for the Gold Shield Award for three years and then as the CEO for the President’s Award for Youth Empowerment Trust, South Africa from 1990 for 13 years. In 2007, he moved to the UK and took up the position of Executive Director: International Development. Craig was awarded an LVO from Her Majesty, The Queen, in the December 2013 Honours List for services to the British Royal Family.

He holds an MBA degree and a BA Honours degree with majors in Physical Education and Geography from Rhodes University, Grahamstown. He also holds a Higher Diploma of Education. Mr Bruce enjoys cycling, watching rugby (especially the NATAL SHARKS) and cricket, reading books, hiking in the mountains and gardening.




School Collaborations

Ms Heidi Salzwedel, Design and Technology Teacher, St Andrew’s College


Ms Salzwedel teaches Design as well as Design and Technology at St Andrew’s College in

Grahamstown. She chose to teach Design because it is a form of applied intelligence and creativity and catalyses many practical solutions to problems; both socio-economic problems and environmental. It is also a cutting-edge field which is growing in South Africa. She studied Fine Art through Rhodes University and continues to produce and exhibit her own art annually at the National Arts Festival, as well as other forums.

She has a keen interest in community engagement and assists with developmental/community engagement endeavours at her school, and in her own capacity. She is currently studying towards a Master’s degree in Visual Arts (Art Education) through Stellenbosch University. The studies have been invaluable in terms of how they complement her teaching and her teaching has in turn provided a forum from which to base richly rewarding research experiences.


Catalysing Ethics and Ethical Leadership in Schools and Existential Conversations

Prof. Tabensky is the director of the newly formed Allan Gray Centre for Leadership Ethics

(AGCLE), nested in the Department of Philosophy, Rhodes University. A central aim of the AGCLE is to help transform the South African tertiary education sector and the educational sector in general, in addition to making transformative interventions in businesses and government. He is the author of Happiness: Personhood, Community and Purpose as well as several articles and book chapters.

Prof. Tabensky is also the editor of and contributor to Judging and Understanding: Essays on Free Will, Narrative, Meaning and the Ethical Limits of Condemnation and of The Positive Function of Evil. He is currently working on a solo authored book on the roots of evil, provisionally entitled Anti-Perfectionist Ethics, which he aims to complete in 2014. Prof. Tabensky runs a yearly roundtable series on critical issues in higher education – CHERTL Roundtable Series on Critical Issues in Higher Education – and is a regular commentator in the national and international media.

Prof. Pedro Tabensky, Director, Allan Gray Centre for Leadership Ethics

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Preparing Young People for Life, Entrepreneurship and Work in the Global Economy

Dr Jonathan Marks, Head of Impact Assurance, The Allan Gray Orbis Foundation

Dr Marks holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of

Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business as well as a Doctorate in Philosophy, focused on entrepre-neurship, from the University of Cape Town’s faculty of engineering and the built environment. Dr Marks was founding director of the Raymond Ackerman Academy of Entrepreneurial Development (located at UCT) and is responsible for impact assurance at the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation. He has taught entrepreneurship, business planning, new venture planning, innovation, corporate innovation and entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial thinking at the University of Cape Town for the past 12 years. His teaching and research has crossed a range of disciplines including commerce, science, engineering and humanities and has included over 1 000 student projects and business plan projects.

Ms Julie Williamson, ‘Start up and Go’, Founder

Ms Williamson is currently employed by the International Labour Organisation

(ILO) as a National Project Coordinator on the Sustainable Enterprise Development Facility Project.Qualifications include a BSocSci degree from UCT, an Education Diploma from Rhodes University and an Honors degree in education from the University of South Africa (UNISA).

She is currently completing her Master’s degree at the University of The Free State, focusing on entrepreneurship education. Development related work experience includes a period at an NGO called Kolping Society of South Africa where work related activities focused on a work opportunity programme for unemployed youth as well a period with Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), focusing on development and skills transfer in the informal sector.

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Mr Bruce Damons, Principal, Sapphire Primary School

Mr Damons has been principal at Sapphire Road Primary

since 2000. For years he has contributed to the debate of schools as centres of community on a number of platforms, including academia, the local and national press, government and non-governmental structures as well as the trade union movement. This has aided in the development of a strong sense of school ownership and agency among learners, parents, teachers and the broader community. His success in integrating Sapphire Road Primary with its surrounding community has garnered him several awards, including the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Alumni Association Special Award in 2012, for his role in developing community centred schools, and a National Teaching Award in 2008, for excellence in primary school leadership.

During his term as principal he has overseen a number of improvements to Sapphire Road Primary. Among them are the growth of the school from 516 learners in 2000 to 1199 in 2014, its development towards becoming the first no-fee school in 2005 and the establishment of a vibrant HIV/AIDS awareness and counselling programme, which has been featured in a Swedish DVD production. Mr Damons and the school have been instrumental in training over 1000 unemployed members of the community in a basic skill and involving 44 community volunteers in the general maintenance of the school.


Fellow Contributions

Ancha Bulunga Candidate Allan Gray Fellow, Rhodes University

I am in the second year of my BSc degree in Environmental Science and Geography at Rhodes

University. After receiving my Honours degree in Environmental Science I would like to practice as an Environmental Consultant. I would also like to continue working with organisations that focus on youth empowerment and education.

My hope is that in the future the youth, especially of Southern Africa, may be able to redefine their future aspirations by looking beyond their backgrounds and circumstances.

Khanya Ndzululeka Fellow, Port Elizabeth

My name is Khanya Ndzululeka. I come from Mthatha in the Eastern Cape. I studied at the

Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) and obtained my BCom Honours in Accounting. I am currently doing my academic articles at NMMU.

I have a passion for people hence I love working with students as lecturer and tutor at NMMU. I am also involved in a variety of community projects that allow me to engage with the youth.

Ameil Harikishun Fellow, Grahamstown

I am a proud South African, born and raised in Durban, and I believe in the concept of being a

global citizen.

The idea that I was one of billions of people on earth made me feel empowered to be significant; the idea that a single person can change the outlook of humanity. It is safe to say that I have always considered myself a budding scientist and I fell naturally into marine sciences. The natural world has always captivated me and it is a fibre that has woven itself into my career, ambitions and how I plan on contributing to society.


Nkateko Mabasa Candidate Fellow, Rhodes University

I am currently studying a BCom in Economics and Accounting at Rhodes University and am set to

finish the degree next year. I matriculated from EPP Mhinga High School in Limpopo, where I had many leadership positions and participated in extracur-ricular activities like debating and public speaking. I hope to do my Honours degree at Witwatersrand University and then go on to do a bit of corporate investment banking.

I aspire to then become the chief economist at the JSE and then serve on the Advisory Board of the Governor until I eventually become Governor myself. In the near future though I will start my Events Management Group.

Sabelwa Maticinka Allan Gray Scholar and Candidate Allan Gray Fellow, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

I am a past pupil of Collegiate Girls’ High school in Port Elizabeth. I am now studying a four-year

BCom Rationum Law degree towards becoming a chartered accountant. I may also complete my LLB after qualifying as a CA.

I strongly believe in being humble and doing your best in everything you do. I am passionate about people and education in order to empower yourself. I hope to inspire many young women to take control of their lives and work hard to become the women they have always dreamt of being. I wish to leave a mark and touch lives wherever I go. I truly think that it is not your presence that counts but what is felt in your absence. In my spare time I like to read, bake and look after children.

Sihle Magubane Candidate Fellow, Rhodes University

I matriculated in 2008 from Menzi High School, in uMlazi, Durban after which I briefly pursued

catholic priestly formation until 2011. In 2012 I commenced my studies at Rhodes in BSocSci, majoring in Economics and Chinese Studies. Having been involved with the Model United Nations since 2006 I am currently cofounder and Secretary General of the Rhodes Model United Nations. I am also an associate of the Africa Strategy Group – the youngest the firm has ever recruited. As an independent contractor of this think tank and consulting firm I consult in the areas of China-Africa relations, political risk and analytics.

Fellow Contributions


Charlene Nel: Fellowship Regional Manager – Western Cape

Charlene’s role as the Regional Manager in the Western Cape allows her to pursue her passion for the develop-ment of youth using the vehicle of education. She has a keen interest in Higher Education. She firmly believes that given the opportunity and right circumstances, young people can successfully contribute and impact South Africa’s growth. She holds an Honours degree in Psychology.

Graeme de Bruyn: Head of Programmes

Graeme is an alumnus of the Salzburg Seminar in Austria and completed his BEd Honours degree, major-ing in Education and Training. He also holds a Master’s degree in Management in Public Policy. He is a former teacher and trade unionist and has worked in the private and development sector focusing on HIV/Aids, democracy, leadership, employee wellbeing and team effectiveness.

Immanuel Commarmond: Fellowship Director

Immanuel’s role allows him to follow one of his passions, which is developing people and seeing them realise their optimal potential and ability to impact. His time as a Fellowship Regional Manager, Programme Officer and now as Fellowship Director at the Foundation along with his experience in tertiary institutions, business and various charity initiatives provide a platform for his contribution. Immanuel holds a degree in Psychology and a Post-graduate Diploma in Management from the UCT Graduate School of Business, where he specialised in Strategic Social Engagement.

Angela Coetzee: Strategy Communications Manager

Angela is of the firm belief that storytelling has the ability to provide insight, reveal truth and build bridges, all of which are necessary in the Southern African context. In her role she aims to use effective (multimedia) communi-cation methods to enrol stakeholders in the Foundation’s vision. Angela holds a BA in Applied Value and Policy Studies from Stellenbosch University and a Diploma in Computer Science.

Anthony Farr: Chief Executive Officer

Anthony is motivated by the potential for significance cre-ated by the Foundation’s vision. It is an opportunity that he is honoured to steward and inspires him to both drive the mandate of the Foundation and deliver on its objec-tive, with a level of excellence that seems to do justice to this remarkable opportunity.

Beverley Fanella: Scholarship Selection Specialist

Born and bred in the Eastern Cape, Beverley studied a BPsych degree, majoring in Counseling, at Stellenbosch University and is currently studying towards an MPhil in Higher Education at the same institution. Her key performance areas and expertise are trends in higher education, trends in the educational sector, recruitment strategies (including bursary programmes) and first gen-eration students (student research and interventions).

The (rest of the) Foundation Team

An event like the Centre of Excellence Conference requires a team of excellence. The following staff members of the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation lent their tech-savvy, organisational and hosting skills to make this weekend of excellence possible.


Lopang Molope: Fellowship Selection Relationship Management Officer

Lopang’s role as Relationship Management Officer involves conducting and coordinating awareness cam-paigns for Fellowship Selection. Her career started off in Private Banking at Investec and Rand Merchant Bank. Lopang’s passion is in South African Theatre.

Molefe Mohlamonyane: Scholarship – Programme Manager

Molefe is inspired by Ghandi’s encouragement to: ‘Be the change you want to see in the world’. He views his immense passion for empowering young minds through education coupled with the drive to help them to fully unleash their potential in both innate and acquired skills as sufficient motivation to serve in the role of Scholarship Manager.

Dr Nontobeko Mabizela: Fellowship Selection Manager

Nontobeko Mabizela holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Cape Town and a Diploma in Business Management. She is passionate about contributing towards progressing South Africa’s development in the education and entrepreneurship sector. Her role in Fellowship Selection allows her to inform strategies that will help identify potential high-impact future shapers.

Ntokozo Shabalala: Office Support Coordinator

Ntokozo’s role at the foundation is to provide business support coordination and facilities management for the Johannesburg office. Above this, he also provides admin-istrative support to the Programme Director. With vast experience gained in IT support, logistics, events and office management from different organisations within the NGO sector, he firmly believes that he is meeting the Foundation’s goals. Ntokozo’s motto in life is that “your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”

Ricardo Johnson: Scholarship Development Officer

In his capacity as a Scholarship Development Officer, Ricardo nurtures and assists the growth of beneficiaries entering the Foundation family. He is charged with facili-tating and focusing Scholars on their journey towards the second tier of the Foundation’s entrepreneurial pipeline, the Fellowship.

Shabnam Khan: Events and Logistics Coordinator

With 10 years’ experience in event project management behind her, Shabnam has defined herself as a leading specialist in the events management arena. Her passion for coordinating excellent events has resulted in numerous Foundation events being outstanding, executed beyond the norm. She provides a complete event management solution to the Gauteng Fellowship division. Shabnam strongly believes in the Foundation’s vision and values.

The (rest of the) Foundation Team












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