South Africa

In 2001 Guy Lundy gave a speech entitled “I pledge allegiance”, which quickly turned into a viral email, being sent around the world by South Africans wanting a positive perspective on what we have achieved as a nation. The massive response to that speech led Guy to co-author the book “South Africa: Reasons to Believe”…. read more »

Born white in apartheid South Africa but raised & bred as a Zulu man learning the skills of survival in Africa, GG Alcock was raised in a mud hut in one of the most poverty stricken and violent parts of Kwazulu Natal, Msinga. GG’s activist parents Neil and Creina Alcock raised their two sons in… read more »

Frederik Willem de Klerk (born 18 March 1936), often known as F. W. de Klerk, is the former seventh and last State President of apartheid-era South Africa, serving from September 1989 to May 1994. De Klerk was also leader of the National Party (which later became the New National Party) from February 1989 to September… read more »

Freek Robinson is a South African journalist, anchor and television presenter best known for hosting the SABC2 current affairs show Fokus, since 1994. Born and raised in Pretoria, Robinson matriculated from Hendrik Verwoerd High school in Pretoria in 1970. He received a B.A. (Hons) in Literature from the University of Pretoria in 1975 and began… read more »

Pete Goffe-Wood was born in London but grew up in South Africa and has been a professional chef for the past 28 years. He was classically trained at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Umhlanga Rocks and later returned to London. For nine years he worked for number of the capital’s top chefs in some of… read more »

Frank’s story is about the journey from invisible to invincible, resilience, resourcefulness, hope, courage, compassion, persistence, purpose and above all the power of the human spirit described by Dr Sherwin Nuland, author and surgeon as follows: “By the human spirit, what I mean is the ability that each one of us has to be something… read more »

Jeremy Mansfield, whose full name is Robert Jeremy Mansfield, was born in Grahamstown South Africa, where he stayed to attend Rhodes University. Jeremy Mansfield started his career when he was still studying. In 1985 he started working for Capital Radio 604, a Durban based station. That same year he was awarded the AA Vita as… read more »

Ferial Haffajee is a South African journalist and newspaper editor. She is the Editor-at-large of The Huffington Post, South Africa. Haffajee was the first black female editor of a national newspaper in South Africa. Haffajee is an advocate for press freedom and women’s empowerment. Ferial matriculated from Bosmont High School and went on to study… read more »

Jenny Morris – AKA The Giggling Gourmet – is one of South Africa‘s most-loved food personalities, she is an author, magazine writer, radio and TV presenter, celebrity chef, teacher, caterer and culinary tour guide who has had an ongoing love affair with food since she was a child, when she started making mouth watering treats… read more »

The most famous white woman in South Africa! Evita Bezuidenhout, still regarded as the most famous white woman in South Africa, was born Evangelie Poggenpoel of humble Boer origins in the dusty Orange Free State town of Bethlehem on 28th September 1935. Illegitimate, imaginative, pretty and ambitious, she dreamt of Hollywood fame and fortune, tasting… read more »

Erik Vermeulen has been a Business consultant since 1994 when he was part of the team that brought Experiential Team Building to South Africa, and international Keynote speaker since 1999. Today he is considered as one of South Africa’s leading thinkers on Behavioural Economics, Corporate Culture and Employee Engagement. He specialises in Corporate Behaviour strategies,… read more »

David Grier was born on the 16th of January 1960 into a Cape wine farming family in South Africa, here his love of the outdoors, food, wine and adventure began. He set out to take all his passions to the extreme and explore the limits of the human mind and body. After studying Hotel Management,… read more »

Eddie Botes is an international business motivational speaker and facilitator based in Cape Town, South Africa. For over a decade and a half, Eddie has been inspiring and challenging audiences to think differently in a world that is changing faster than we can imagine. He has spoken and trained in eight countries with audiences as… read more »

Chris Forrest & Pete Goffe-Wood, One of them is a master comic who tries to cook, and the other a renowned celebrity chef, who’s been known to crack the odd joke. Chris Forrest has been on the SA comedy scene since the late nineties, and Pete Goffe-Wood, best known as a judge on Masterchef South… read more »