Cape Town. Global Shapers

Official blog. "Awesome people doing awesome things."

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Meet Our Shapers: Jenny Dawson was a hedge fund manager before she quit her job and set up Rubies in the Rubble, a gorgeous company which makes handmade chutneys and jam from surplus fruits and vegetables before they’re discarded.

Are you making changes in your community like Jenny? Then join our shaper community and apply online today. 

Read more at http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/blogs/546104/mc-meets-jenny-dawson.html#g3osUJS5kdIPelXi.99 Read more at http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/blogs/546104/mc-meets-jenny-dawson.html#0Js2vSyKhPDrALg9.99

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Meet Farhana Parker: a social change maker shaping the lives of ordinary women wherever she goes. From South Africa to Brazil, she has used her skills to spearhead initiatives that develop and empower women. Are you impacting other women's lives? Then apply to join the Cape Town Global Shapers. https://globalshapers.org/apply

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Global Shapers Cape Town community, in partnership with the Pan African Youth Dialog hosted the first "Meet the Leader" session for 2016. Purposed to connect, inform and empower the emerging generation of business leaders and innovators, the project presented the opportunity to discuss partnership in furthering the African economy.

Andrew Borain, CEO of the Western Cape Economic Development Partnership, led the session on "Economic development through entrepreneurship and collaborative partnerships." The educational discussion empowered young leaders to invest in themselves, their careers and the economy. With over 50 young leaders in attendance, the session was hosted by @RapelangRabana and Xolani Nyali (@ecksisto) from the Cape Town Global Shapers community.

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Shapers played their part to further democracy. It was a great day. Proud to be South African #mysavote #ivoted #election2016

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Meet the shaper: Andrew Isaah Gasnolar named one of South Africa's young influencers! "People, and often those in leadership, will disappoint you, but you have to learn to take the conversation and not the disappointment forward." Are you the next Shaper? Join our Cape Town Hub. Applications now open https://globalshapers.org/apply #globalshapers #meetthehub #apply

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“ I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. “ 

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We are trapped in a vicious cycle of disbelief, frustration, shock and disappointment. These are times of “quiet desperation”, as captured by Henry David Thoreau, where South Africans are forced to go to the grave with the unfulfilled promise of our democracy. Our quiet desperation is not simply isolated to a few but rather can be captured by Adam Smith’s quote: “No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable”.

ANDREW IHSAAN GASNOLAR (a Cape Town Hub Global Shaper) shares on the reality of South Africa's democracy, pending the upcoming municipal elections. Read more http://www.globalshapers.org/news/looking-out-over-water-people-drown

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Tonight we celebrate young South Africans whose ideas and efforts continue to impact society positively, at the Youth Ministerial Awards. One of the winners is Lusanda Gwayi of Dream Factory Foundation - a member of the Cape Town Global Shapers Hub

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Cape Town.

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Cape Town’s World Economic Forum Global Shapers making an impact in their local community. 

Today, 4 members of the Global Shapers Cape Town Hub engaged with promising youth in Cape Town from Athlone and surrounding community. Through a hub project called Shaper Inspirational Talks, the Global Shapers shared on their individual journeys inspiring and empowering the youth to chase their own dreams.  

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Meet the shapers! Tomorrow Lungisa Matshoba, technology and product director at @yoco_za will be sharing his story with South African youth at RLabs at the Shapers Inspirational Talks. Global Shapers shaping our communities!

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"Our education system needs to further develop the communication and critical thinking skills of our children in high school and primary school."

Rapelang Rabana on the MorningFix on Metro FM

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Meet the Cape Town Hub: At just 25, Sechaba Selialia is juggling several roles. He is a business analyst, World Economic Forum Global Shaper and founder of his own clothing company. We find out how he does it in Destiny Man :) http://www.destinyman.com/2016/06/08/sechaba-selialia-succeeding-different-sectors/

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Ventures Africa puts together shortlist of 42 amazing African Innovators to watch

Last year Ventures Africa published 40 African Innovators to Watch and this year, the astounding talent pushed us to feature 42 innovators this time around. 42 African Innovators to Watch seeks to reposition how we consider innovation on the continent and by extension what it means to be an innovator. Each of the individuals we spotlight, share a commitment to something simultaneously infinite, yet quantifiable: change.

Ozoz Sokoh, also known as Kitchen Butterly, notes that “the innovator’s life is one guided by three Ps: Patterns – recognising them; Preservation – innovators discard very few ideas; and Possibility – old ideas aren’t dead and buried. For most of the innovators I know, the desire to create and make a difference is far greater than fear of failing.” And so, this year we present 47 innovators (we have two teams of three), who have shown an inspired commitment to the three P’s, and change, in all its forms.

Selected photographs from the top:

Tonje Bakang Afrostream, Cameroon

Roye Okupe YouNeek Studios, Nigeria

Sitawa Wafula My Mind My Funk, Kenya

Dr. Jean Bosco Kazirukanyo Oil Spill Cement, Burundi

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As Uganda’s Plastic Bag Ban Takes Hold, New Market for Woven, Reusable Bags

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On Africa.

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For the people - this is why we serve.

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Kennedy Kitheka on the textbook crisis - education

"You’ve got people who don’t believe that technology is the way to solve education. They think teachers will struggle to shift their mind-set to be able to use technology within classrooms or to better enhance their teaching methods." - Kennedy Kitheka Read more at http://www.bdlive.co.za/life/books/2012/12/03/education-without-the-textbook-crisis