She speaks in whispering tones and is always immaculately dressed. When she walks into a room and begins speaking, people sit up and listen. Fearless and resolute, this is the woman who has taken on some of South Africa’s most powerful politicians – and won. This woman is Advocate Thuli Madonsela, the country’s Public Prot...
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Advocate Thuli Madonsela, the former Public Protector of South Africa, announced on Monday at the Cape Town Press Club that she is in the process of creating a non-partisan, operational private foundation, to operate as the Thuma Foundation. The foundation seeks to develop leadership for democracy, development and peace, focusin...
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Advocate Thuli Madonsela was the winner of the Drivers of Change Individual Award in 2011, just two years into her seven-year term as public protector. She continued working to hold the public sector accountable as an outspoken voice for justice during the remaining five years of her term. In 2016 she was vindicated by the Const...
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USB Executive Development (USB-ED) recently presented a programme sponsorship to the Thuma Foundation, currently being established by the former Public Protector of South Africa, Advocate Thuli Madonsela. The establishment of the foundation was announced in Cape Town in January this year by adv. Madonsela as a non-partisan, oper...
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JOHANNESBURG – Former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela says the moral outrage being felt by the country over the assault case involving Deputy Higher Education Minister Mduduzi Manana has been heightened because it’s Women’s Month. She says while the situation is sad, it’s also a wakeup call that better interventions...
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My time in the office of the public protector afforded me the opportunity to interact with young people and I got to learn that the youth does not want democracy, they want freedom. Democracy has been around for centuries; however, it is rigid and it needs to be implemented in a way which it ensures that it works for all. Social...
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Stats SA recently announced that poverty is increasing in the country, and said that the number of people living in extreme poverty – those who earn less than R441 a month – rose from 11 million in 2011 to 13.8 million in 2015. This is said to take South Africa back to the level of extreme poverty that was experienced in 200...
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