Today we have the distinct honor and privilege of moving our conversation to South Africa . We have with us Mzamo Mosito. He is a senior marketing professional in South Africa . He is an expert in multicultural communications and marketing. He also happens to be the chief marketing officer for a sub Saharan Africa. ForGoogle. Mzamo, it's a pleasure to have you welcome to the discussion and thank you for being with us.
Rainbow Nation. So basically, you don't want it then, because if you want something, you should also be willing to give and get saying, for example, with black people in South Africa for for if black people agree that a non racial society is a society we should all aim for, theneven black people who have been paid and we've been had must also then come to the party and to the table and
unhealthy. It's unstable in the long run to go only Mandela route that's emotionally and psychologically and spiritually has proven in South Africa not to be the best model, either, because it just not pragmatic. And it doesn't take into account of restorative justice. So you it's kind of like for me,those would be the examples, like the people that are at the back of my video. Those are my people. I mean that if
And just shout out what countries? South Africa , Kenya, Tanzania.That's awesome. Rwanda. Wow, excellent.
And you'll always have that in any society. South Africa , specifically, I think there's been massive, massive progress as far as racial relationships are concerned.The problem, however, there is that I heard someone say that we live in the age of smartphones and stupid people.
And Mandela's legacy has been one of embracing everybody at the same time as trying to help his own country. South Africa has never been given enough credit for the fact that she has kept her borders open to refugees.Several million people have found a home in South Africa in the 23 years of the new democracy in South Africa .
And in the end they had to resolve the issue themselves. South Africa , they absolutely refused to have a third party.They insisted the talks must be face to face.
So this was the group that Nelson Mandela had spent 23 years in jail for, but they won. South Africa was the champion.So Mandela leaps out of the stand, dons a Springbok jersey, and hugs the captain.
And if you do a search on Moon Watch, you'll find images-- Boy Scouts in the Philippines , gentlemen in suit and tie in South Africa looking through telescopes.And what they'd do is they'd find something in the sky, and they'd let the people in Boston know.
It was photographed by a woman named Jessica Hilltout in a book called "Amen," and it was during the last World Cup in South Africa . And she decided to look at the other side of the game of soccer.So while all the fanfare was happening in Johannesburg, she went off into all these villages in Africa.
important the first is about lesbian women and gender non-conforming women in South Africa unfortunately in South Africa a lot of um lesbian or gendernon-conforming women uh are raped um by gangs of men or sometimes by individual
much impact as possible because corrective rape as it's called it it doesn't only happen in South Africa also in other countries it takes place so we can use the report also in other countries to really go tothe government and say listen you really have to do something against this so that is one report about lesbian and
would bring you about sixty thousand dollars. That's a lot of money, so there's a lot of pressure on rhinos. South Africa has lost rhinos; Zimbabwe's lost rhinos; Kenya's lost rhinos; Namibia zero.And it's all because of this guy who's sitting next to me and he's actually telling me, "Pick your tree man, pick your tree." Because this rhino by the name of Speedy, and that's the
What's BRICS? It's an acronym. It stands for Brazil, Russia, India, uh South Africa , China. So, am I right in thinking because Iran, Russia, and China were colluding, it threatened US dominance, which is driven by the world using the dollar as the primary currency
that Africa plays in in South Africa is, um, I would say, in South Africa it can be split in that you have the privileged group, which is kind of predominantly white in South Africa , which has tech hubs. I c t very innovative, um, thought
What I learned through volunteerism was the impact of large-scale collective volunteerism. In South Africa initially there was a curiosity, about 150 volunteers coming, a bit more interested, 300 the following year, a lot more at 700, and then when 1,400 came on one go, an enormous impact.
We use our one week every year to leverage inspirational goodwill for the incumbent government in South Africa . So we invite ministers and leading politicians. And for most of the time people are critical of politicians, and maybe in some cases deserve it but not in all cases, that I see the sincerity and integrity
What if-- instead of 2,000 volunteers coming, what if over the next two or three years we have a moment with 5,000 volunteers arriving in South Africa ? What would be the ripple effect of such a positive trip like that? On the innovation and technology side, imagine how a large-scale internet-based volunteering
we call mobile money, using your cell phone to send money, which obviates the need to have a checking account. But South Africa 's are pretty famous.
and the mining industry, was losing close to $49 million a year by shipping all the executive and the top employees to South Africa for treatment, and getting a private plane to take somebody who's having a headache or a stomach pain. And I said, but if I can invest more than $18 million in high tech equipment in the Congo,
So what I've done with this book is gone back and interviewed the people who participated in similar conflicts everywhere else in the world, from South Africa to Indonesia, the Philippines to Latin America, El Salvador, and Colombia. And there's an interesting pattern that comes out of it.
For young women and girls it's particularly noticeable. In South Africa , while 4.5%of young men between the ages of 15 and 24 are HIV positive, among the equivalent group of young women the rate is 13.8.
Studies of childhood behavior show gender influence behaviors which is of course true of all societies. In South Africa where these studies have been done, people have noted that girls learn very early to be compliant and boys learn very early to be assertive. And those behaviors continue.
She was about 19 years old. And South Africa being a multi-racial country, she was part of an organizing committee that was white, was black, was South Asian.
So I'm gonna play an interview that she actually recorded in Capetown and edited herself. So South Africa actually is our first satellite; Canada became a satellite later. I'm gonna play an interview from Canada after this and soon later this year we'll be starting work in Nairobi.
private security guards in South Africa , more than the military and police combined. So if you are affluent in South Africa , it is a beautiful place to
So in South Africa , there's Pinewood Studios.
So in South Africa , they have Pinewood Studios.
and I went to South Africa and worked with some phenomenal South African musicians, and I feel like I could do a bit more of that,
My mother's from South Africa .
police were killed by the police or it just took me back to 1980 19, late nineties. And then it took me back to South Africa on how things are just not changing. And they are moving slow, not even evolution. If there's another word for evolution, it will be a slower version of an evolution. It's just slow, and it just shows me
be willing to give something. They must be willing to give something to truly demonstrate that they are really sorry and they want to make this right, and that hasn't happened in South Africa . Nor has it happened in the US that people say, Oh yes, racial equality is important, but I'm not willing to be inconvenienced Bible, so I wanted. But I don't want the inconvenience.
Chinese colored then black, the bottom of the ladder of the pyramid was black, then colored. So the most excluded races in South Africa economically academically, education and tech or even I, C T or mobile access is colored and black colored in South Africa is next race.
when we're not. So let's let's not lie with to ourselves. So then what we find is that in South Africa , the black colored population, which is the majority prop 90% of South Africa 's population, is black and colored. That's the population that has been left behind, and it's partly being left behind because of the 455 100 years of exclusion. Poor education, poor nutrition, all of those things. And then the education system is still dismal, and it hasn't
We had apartheid South Africa .
We have Africa with South Africa .
Safari in South Africa is great fun.
So when he repeated himself, I realized he was speaking to me in Afrikaans, my home language and the language of the white people, the language of the oppressor in South Africa . And I heard him say over the years that when you speak to a man, it goes to his head, but when you speak to a man in his language,
And we measure things maybe differently now because of technology. I think in South Africa you will always have-- in any society across the world, you will have pockets of racism. People will just simply refuse to change, not for any good reasoning, but people who just don't want to change.
It's not just America. It's not South Africa . Everywhere in the world, it's the radicals shouting that makes us all move back into a more conservative society.
Because in South Africa , you have a whole generation of child-headed households because their parents all
on to South Africa .
I thought South Africa was in an intractable bloody civil war for the future.
She's from South Africa .
So I went to South Africa to one of the doctors in Rosebank Clinic.
You're South Africa . And you guys are going to get them doing almost like that Icelandic clap like that.
Everyone in South Africa had a story of a personal encounter with him.
He was born in South Africa .
He let us leave South Africa at the age of 18 years old to come to the States to pursue our career.
And when I left South Africa , when you come back, you still had to go through a lot of grilling as to where have you been, who did you speak to,