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Global Philanthropists Circle
Southern African Visit, March 11-March 20, 2002
Anthuri Growth Equity Fund (Pty) Ltd
Anthuri Growth Equity Fund (Pty) Ltd is a private equity fund that was established in 2000 by a group of South African business people and professionals, US-based South North Development Initiative (SNDI) and The Synergos Institute. "Anthuri" is a Khoisan word meaning "future". Anthuri invests in equity in private companies located throughout South Africa, providing high potential small and medium sized businesses predominantly from historically disadvantaged backgrounds with medium to long-term expansion capital. The team has a well-developed network of local and international contacts, and this US/SA partnership produces an optimal mix of local market knowledge and access, with international experience and expertise in private equity fund management.
Contact: Patrick Parring, Chairperson
2nd Floor, Omnipark Building
102 Edward Street, Tygervalley, 7530
Western Cape, South Africa
(Couriers/visitors to Unit 2, 19 Pasita Street, Rosen Park, Tygervalley)
Tel: +27 (21) 914-8212
Fax: +27 (21) 914-5511
Email: parringp@anthuri.co.za
Web: www.anthuri.co.za
Community Chest of the Western Cape
Community Chest of the Western Cape was established in 1928 as a partnership between the Cape Town Rotary Club, Business Leaders and Concerned Community Leaders in response to the plight of the poor and vulnerable. As the oldest Community Chest in the world, outside of the United States, it formed the cornerstone for the establishment of the Movement in South Africa presently comprising 16 Chests nationally. For the past 74 years the Community Chest has strengthened its role and function in the field of social welfare services and development. The Chest pioneered a Program creating an enabling environment for organizations engaged in community-based services in rural and poorest of the poor communities. Presently 470 registered social welfare/development organizations and programs are enabled to provide efficient, effective and accountable services through Community Chest funding. On average the Community Chest allocates R12 million annually towards services and development in the sectors of Health Care Support Services, Children/Youth Support Services, Early Childhood Development, Rehabilitation, General Family and Child Welfare Services, Care of the Mentally Handicapped, Care of the Physically Disabled, Elderly Care and Care for the Homeless, Community Development Projects, and Community Services.
Most importantly, the money raised in the community stays in the community. The uniqueness of the Community Chest is vested in its mission which enables sustainable and well managed services ensuring self-sufficient and well cared for citizens, who, ultimately together with those who care, unites the community to make the Western Cape the best it can be.
Contact: Amelia Jones, CEO
P.O. Box 3836
Cape Town, 8000
South Africa
Tel: +27 (21) 424-6927
Fax: +27 (21) 424-3095
Email: amelia@comchest.org.za
Web: www.uwint.org/southafrica/southafrica.html
The Constitutional Court of South Africa
The Constitutional Court of South Africa will be built beside a former prison, originally built in 1893 as a fort by Boer President Paul Kruger in anticipation of an attack by the British. Over the next century, this prison came to house rebels, insurrectionists and political leaders of all persuasions. It is the only prison to have held both M.K. Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. Hundreds of thousands of black people suffered humiliation in its cells under apartheid laws.
The Court building will rise up next to the prison to symbolize the triumph of human rights over oppression and despair. The so-called "Native Gaol" will be kept as a museum to remind us of the past. The Women's prison will become the home of the Commission for Gender Equality. Constitution Hill will also house the Presidential Papers of Nelson Mandela and documents from South Africa's negotiated revolution and first elections. South African artists and galleries from all over the country have already donated paintings, sculpture and tapestry to show their support for the ideals of the Constitution. The building will be given an accessible and familiar feel through verandahs and the sheltering canopy of the African tree, under which people traditionally gathered to resolve disputes.
Contact: Justice Albee Sachs
33 Hoofd Street, Forum 2
Braam Park, Braamfontein
South Africa
Tel: +27 (11) 359-7429
Fax: +27 (11) 403-8816
Email: sachs@concourt.org.za
The Cradle of Humankind: The Sterkfontein CavesNamed as a World Heritage Site, The Cradle of Humankind Site comprises a strip of a dozen dolomitic limestone caves containing the fossilized remains of hominids (i.e. human and pre-human) from over 2 to 3.3 million years ago, the early stone-age, the middle stone age, the later stone age, the early and late iron age and up to the present day. They have produced thousands of fossils and it is estimated that there may be up to 25 more sites in the area worth excavating. Scientists have long accepted that all humans had their origins in Africa. Through the use of biochemical evidence they have argued that the split of the human lineage (Hominidae) from that of African apes took place around 5-6 million years ago. The study of hominid fossils from sites in Africa thus enables scientists to understand how these hominids have changed and diversified since then. The Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site provides important information about members of the oldest group of hominids, Australopithecus. The Sterkfontein Caves have produced the most complete skeleton of a 3.3 million year old australopithecine, as well as about 500 specimens of a younger species. Various sites in the Cradle of Humankind area also provide crucial information about the environment that these hominids inhabited. The Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site is thus a scientific treasure house containing key information about the human family, as well as early human and cultural development, information that is universal importance.
www.cradleofhumankind.co.za
Desmond Tutu Educational Trust
The Desmond Tutu Educational Trust is a nongovernmental organization that works in the field of tertiary education. The Trust was established in 1990 by Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu and ex-Vice Chancellor of the University of the Western Cape Professor Jakes Gerwel with the support of Professor Jacques de Villiers and Reverend Lionel Louw. The Desmond Tutu Educational Trust aims to become one of the leading stakeholders in the challenge to transform tertiary education in South Africa into a unitary system that will offer the benefits of quality education to all groups in this nation. The Desmond Tutu Educational Trust is working to become a leading service provider that can take on the role of innovator to meet the challenges of an ever-changing South African society.
Contact: Edna Van Harte
PO Box 394
Kasselsvlei 7533
South Africa
Tel: +27 (21) 951-6544
Fax: +27 (21) 951-7668
Web: www.uwc.ac.za/DTET/
Gordon Institute of Business Sciences
The Gordon Institute of Business Science works to improve significantly the competitive performance of individuals and organizations through business education. As a leading business school in the heart of Illovo, close to the Sandton business hub, GIBS offers a wide range of executive and academic programs, which can be custom-designed to suit specific needs.
Contact: Nick Binedell, Director
26 Melville Road
Illovo, Johannesburg
South Africa
Tel: +27 (11) 771-4000
Fax: +27 (11) 771-4122
Web: www.gibs.co.za
Ikamva Labantu
Ikamva Labantu (a Xhosa phrase meaning "The Future of our Nation") is a non-profit, non-governmental umbrella organization for more than 1,000 community-based and community-owned programs in the townships of South Africa. The founder, Helen Lieberman, became involved in the townships surrounding Cape Town more than thirty years ago, where she and community concerned activists initiated workable solutions to alleviate the enormous suffering they saw around them. At first they worked together without any formal organizational structure and in 1992 after a period of intensive community consultation, Ikamva Labantu was formally named and launched. Social services that are provided by Ikamva Labantu include daycare, youth education and sport, access to medical and legal services, skills training for the unemployed and disabled, rehabilitation and shelters for the homeless, and seniors-caring-for-seniors programs. In recognition of the achievements of Ikamva Labantu, in 1998 the organization was honored to be selected by the Mandela government as the lead partner in a pilot project to test and set up a new funding policy for social services in South Africa.
Contact: Helen Lieberman
1st Floor
Buchanan Building
Buchanan Square
160 Sir Lowry Rd.
Woodstock 7925
South Africa
Tel: +27 (21) 461-8338
Mobile: +27 (82) 571-5676
Home: +27 (21) 434-5483
Fax: +27 (21) 461-6823
Email: info@ikamva.co.za
www.ikamva.com/
Kagiso Trust Investments
Kagiso Trust Investments was formed in 1993 after the Kagiso Trust trustees concluded that donor funding would be significantly reduced once there was a new dispensation and normalization of politics was attained. KTI's objective is to expand its capital through strategic investment in new or existing businesses. Its asset base has been growing steadily and promises to be a significant player in business -- especially black business in South Africa. The past five years of its existence, KTI has proved to be a unique business venture. Its primary purpose is to generate profit for shareholders, which includes first and foremost Kagiso Trust. It is this link which makes KTI unique as its objective is to create an income-stream, not for individuals, but for Kagiso Trust and by extension those who benefit form KT's services. The uniqueness of KTI is also reflected in the way it conducts its business: for example, it does not invest in activities that are harmful to society such as armaments, gambling, skin-lighteners etc. In this way, it distinguishes itself as a commercial entity not bent on "making money by any means available." KTI carries the ethos and values of KT into the boardrooms of corporate South Africa and insists on reflecting the demographics of the South African society in employment where it promotes equity, justice and fairness in the business and labor sector. Some of the companies that were predominantly white have changed over time since being associated with KTI.
Contact: Eric Molobi, Executive Chairman
209 Smit Street
Braamfontein, 2001
South Africa
Tel: +27 (11) 807-1106
Fax: +27 (11) 807-6379
Email: emolobi@kti.co.za
Web: www.kagisotrust.com
Leadership Regional Network (LeaRN)
LeaRN was established in April of 1999 as a non-profit organization working to develop indigenous leadership capacity in the Southern African Region. Its establishment was funded by a W. K. Kellogg Foundation grant in recognition of the fact that leadership capacity -- whether at regional, national, local or family level -- was central to the success and failure of initiatives in the Southern African Region. The Regional Office of the Organization is based at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. LeaRN is a partnership between the University of Pretoria and the DRC (Development Resources Center), Johannesburg, South Africa.
LeaRN constitutes a network of eight country hubs based in the following six countries: Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe. South Africa has three Country Hubs (Eastern Cape, Kwa Zulu Natal and the Northern Province). The rest of the countries have one hub each. Like the Regional Hub the Country Hubs are a partnership between a University and a NGO, thereby providing the environment for conceptual and intellectual growth of the program. LeaRN is a partner organization of The Synergos Institute.
Contact: Gavin Andersson, Director
PO Box 12948
Hatfield, Pretoria
South Africa
Tel: +27 (12) 420-4425
Email: gavina@wn.apc.org
Web: www.learnafrica.org
LoveLife
LoveLife is the largest effort ever undertaken in South Africa to positively influence adolescent sexual behavior. LoveLife advocates a new lifestyle for young people based on informed choice, shared responsibility, and positive sexuality. Combining high-powered media with nationwide adolescent sexual health services and outreach programs, LoveLife's main strategy is to get all South Africans -- but most particularly 12-17 year olds, talking more openly about sex and sexuality. Launched in September 1999 under the auspices of South African First Lady, Zanele Mbeki, LoveLife is marketed as an aspirational lifestyle brand for young people. It has achieved rapid roll-out of adolescent services and outreach programs throughout South Africa, including: a specialist sexual help line for young people, LoveLife Y-Centers, adolescent friendly public sector clinics, the LoveLife franchise (NGOs as agents for LoveLife), a national cadre of 18-25 year old volunteer groundBREAKERS, the LoveLife Games (the largest interschool sports and leadership development program in South Africa), Love Tours (outdoor radio broadcast units) and the bright purple Love Train. These services are supported by a massive media campaign on television, radio and outdoor media, and in print. Partnerships with the major media groups in South Africa enable LoveLife to more than double each dollar. Major funding for LoveLife is provided by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Contact: David Harrison, Director
PO Box 45
Parklands 2121, South Africa
Tel: +27 (11) 771-6800
Fax: +27 (11) 771-6801
Email: davidh@lovelife.org.za
Web: www.lovelife.org.za
National Business Initiative
National Business Initiative (NBI) was launched by President Mandela in March 1995, as business's collective response to the socio-economic challenges facing the new South Africa. The NBI was formed as a not-for-profit, business-based, public interest organization, with over 180 leading South African and international companies as its members. It has just over 50 staff members in three offices (Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town), one national board as well as six provincial or operational sub-boards to govern its activities. NBI's strategy is to operate as a partnership between business and government in the area of socio-economic delivery, without creating dependency by government structures on business assistance. It works to initiate systemic change that can be replicated or implemented at scale in socio-economic delivery mechanisms (e.g. education), to make an impact on national problems, without duplicating what companies can do through their own corporate social investment programs and maintain a lean and representative organization.
Contact: Mike Rosholt, Chair and Gillian Hutchings, Director of Communications
17th floor, Metal Box Centre
25 Owl Street
Auckland Park, South Africa
Tel: +27 (11) 482-5100
Fax: +27 (11) 48- 5507/8
Email: info@nbi.org.za
Web: www.nbi.org.za
Nelson Mandela Children's FundNelson Mandela Children's Fund (NMCF) works to support organizations implementing programs that empower children and youth from birth to 22 years of age from impoverished backgrounds to improve the quality of their lives. They place emphasis on creative, innovative and participatory initiatives that have the potential to change the ways in which society responds to children and youth. Several major new initiatives have been implemented within the NMCF including the focus on HIV/AIDS, child-headed households, fighting youth poverty, and abused children and the courts. NMCF continues to extend its presence internationally and is now represented in Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Contact: Sibongile Mkhabela, CEO
33 Scott Street, Waverly 2090
PO Box 797 Highlands North 2037
Johannesburg, South Africa
Tel: +27 (11) 786-9140
Fax: +27 (11) 786-9197
Email: nmcf@mail.icon.co.za
Web: www.mandela-children.org
Nelson Mandela Foundation
The Nelson Mandela Foundation was established in September, 1999 to provide the infrastructure and resources required to support Mr. Mandela's initiatives which are to advance democracy, peace, reconciliation and justice throughout the African continent and elsewhere in the world. The Foundation has three primary areas of focus: ie. democracy building and conflict resolution, education, and health. The Foundation was founded to increase the scope and effectiveness of Mr. Mandela's work, to initiate and support programs that carry out these objectives, and to preserve Mr. Mandela's legacy for future generations.
Contact:
Private Bag 70000
Houghton 2041
Johannesburg, South Africa
Tel: +27 (11) 728-1000
Fax: +27 (11) 728-1111
Email: nmf@zls.co.za
Peace Parks Foundation
The Peace Parks Foundation was started to facilitate the establishment of Transfrontier Conservation Areas -- large tracts of land crossing national boundaries -- supporting sustainable economic development, the conservation of biodiversity and regional peace and stability. The Peace Park in Southern Africa will stretch between South Africa (Kruger Park), Mozambique (Gaza) and Zimbabwe (Gonarezhou). The Peace Parks Foundation has been asked by the World Bank and international aid agencies to properly plan the infrastructure and tourist facilities needed in this area and they are training guardians and rangers at a Wildlife College established four years ago. With Dr. Anton Rupert as its Chairman and Nelson Mandela as Patron Emeritus, the Peace Parks Foundation "embodies a profound mix of those old Jungian ideas of wilderness, and the modern conservation ethic of integrated and sustainable wildlife management. It boils down to preserving that wonderful, mystical wilderness experience combined with hard-nosed business principles and a long term vision of philanthropic action that sees the preservation of wildlife as a core issue in the upliftment of rural Africa," Tony Weaver, The Parks of Peace.
Contact: William Van Riet, Executive Vice-Chairman
PO Box 12743
Die Boord, 7613
South Africa
Telephone: +27 21 887 6188
Facsimilie: +27 21 887 6189
Email: parks@ppf.org.za
Web: www.peaceparks.org
Robben Island
For almost 400 years Robben Island has been a place of banishment and exile, housing people that colonial and apartheid rulers viewed as political troublemakers -- including Muslim leaders who opposed Dutch colonialism in East Asia and African leaders who resisted British expansion on the continent. Under apartheid, Robben Island became known internationally for its institutional brutality, with some freedom fighters spending decades in prison for their beliefs. Yet people such as Nelson Mandela emerged from there to lead South Africa with a message of reconciliation that moved the world. Today, visitors to Robben Island and the Nelson Mandela Gateway Museum provide visitors with an emotional glimpse into the history of political struggle in South Africa. Our guide, Ahmed Kathrada, spent 26 years in prison with Mr. Mandela. Upon his release in 1989, he was given a hero's welcome in Soweto. Mr. Kathrada was elected to Parliament in 1994, during South Africa's first democratic elections, and now serves as Chairman of the Robben Island Museum Council and the Ex-Political Prisoner's Committee.
Contact: Ahmed "Kathy" Kathrada
Fax: (21-21) 426-0295
Phone: (27-21) 409-5183
Web: www.robben-island.org.za/gateway/
Social Change Assistance Trust
Social Change Assistance Trust (Scat), a Cape Town based, independent fundraising and grant making development agency, has been in existence for sixteen years working in the rural development sector. Their aim is to empower the rural poor, to strengthen civil society and promote social change through supporting local agencies working for development/human rights in rural communities. Scat offers support in organizational development and capacity building to those they fund and provide ongoing monitoring. Their training team offers specific skills development courses, focused on Scat criteria such as community governance, gender equity and financial management. A crucial part of the Scat model is its "bottom up" approach. Scat does not establish any projects itself, but rather grants are given to promising and proven initiatives, which emerge from within communities.
Contact: Nomhle Nkumbi-Ndopu
3rd Floor Sabre House
19 Loop Street
Cape Town
South Africa
Tel: +27 (21) 418-2575
Fax: +27 (21) 418-6850
Email: nomhle@scat.org.za
Web: www.scat.org.za
Southern African Grantmakers AssociationSouthern African Grantmakers Association (SAGA) is a membership association of institutions committed to developmental and effective grantmaking. SAGA's members are corporates having social investment programs, international donor organizations, local private foundation and grantmaking non-governmental organizations. It works to promote the relevance, effectiveness and social impact of grantmaking in Southern Africa, and to increase members' access to knowledge, training and resources and services. SAGA assists in the reduction of poverty and promotion of a human rights culture by encouraging a more effective and professional flow of independent and corporate social investment support to poor communities. SAGA is a partner organization of The Synergos Institute.
Contact: Colleen du Toit
PO Box 31667
Braamfontein 2017, Johannesburg
South Africa
Tel: +27 (11) 403-1610
Fax: +27 (11) 403-1689
Email: colleendt@saga.wn.apc.org
University of Cape Town
The University of Cape Town (UCT) is a vibrant academic community of some 16 000 students and 4 500 members of staff. Nestling on the slopes of Devil's Peak, UCT is South Africa's oldest university, and is one of Africa's leading teaching and research institutions. Apart from establishing itself as a leading research and teaching university, the decades that followed the period 1960 to 1990 were marked by sustained opposition to apartheid, particularly in higher education. Since then, UCT has made a deliberate, planned process of internal transformation, to meet South Africa's new challenges in higher education. The University has six faculties (Commerce, Engineering and the Built Environment, Health Sciences, Humanities, Law and Science). Particular emphasis is placed on postgraduate studies and 30% of its students are enrolled in postgraduate programs.
Contact, Professor Martin West, Deputy Vice-Chancellor
Private Bag, Rondebosch, 7701
South Africa
Tel: +27 (21) 650-2175
Email: aesmew@bremner.uct.ac.za
Web: www.uct.ac.za
The Zimbabwe Progress Fund
The Zimbabwe Progress Fund was established in 1996 with the initial purchase of the Courtney Hotel in Harare. Rose Mazula, a Zimbabwean female executive was selected as its Managing Director. South North Development Initiative and The Synergos Institute through ZPF-USA are 70% shareholders in the fund, while Fidelity, a local insurance company and other Zimbabweans hold the remaining 30%. The fund invests in small and medium-sized companies, and to date has made twelve investments in businesses such as hotels, restaurants, and vegetable and fruit processing plants. The goals of the fund's investment strategy include: providing financial resources for mergers of small companies to improve their viability, participating in the privation of government owned companies, promoting women-owned businesses, and promoting joint ventures with foreign companies.
Contact: Rose Mazula
PO Box 3150
Harare
Zimbabwe
Tel: +263 (4) 722-294
Fax: +263 (4) 708-709
Email: zpf@ecoweb.co.zw
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