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Village elders engaging on community matters at the Ndimakude Great Place, Eastern Cape.
Meeting structure, sitting in LETSEMA CIRCLE where everyone is able to make eye contact, prioritises equality similar to what was intended on a Constitutional Court.
CASE STUDIES & PILOTS
Using the Letsema Process to root engagements in healing, our case studies adopt collaborative governance approaches to inclusive economic development.
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INITIATIVE: CORPORATE ACTIVISM: PG DIP UBUNTU WORKSHOPS
PARTNER: Henley Business School
SECTOR: Academic/Education
STATUS: Case Study
"I need to reimagine my life before I can reimagine SA."
"How can I solve society’s problems without understanding people’s perspectives."
Workshop Participants
ReimagineSA was invited to bring the Active Citizenry layer to Henley’s PGDip in Management to inspire cohorts to lead with consciousness through the lens of Ubuntu.. The workshops offered an important opportunity to bring active citizenship, and the application of the principles outlined in the preamble of our constitution, into leadership development.
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INITIATIVE: ACCELERATING SOCIAL HOUSING IN SA: DIALOGUES
PARTNER: Absa
SECTOR: Financial
STATUS: Pilot: 2020-2021
"Areas in South Africa in need of key socio-economic development attention remain categorised legally as township spaces. Real economic opportunity exists and can be catalysed, but to succeed this must enabled through laws and legislation."
Nomfundo Dlamini, Program Manager
South African Cities Network .
A discussion illustrating the need for multiple inclusion-oriented strategies to help overcome our inherited divisive spatial planning legacies and eradicate exclusionary development. This requires a facilitated process of ‘walking together’. The discussion aimed to learn what role the financial sector can/should be playing.
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INITIATIVE: MARIKANA RENEWAL PROGRAMME
PARTNER: Sibanye-Stillwater
SECTOR: Extractives Industry
STATUS: Case Study: 2021-2022
NEXT STEPS: Pilot:: Renewal (PGM Sector): 2023 - 2025
“A community that is united, has found healing and is working at restoring itself, and gearing itself up for greater heights.”
Marikana Renewal Programme Patron,
Archbishop Thabo Makgoba.
Holistic healing of our psycho-social traumas [emotional settlement]
is an essential component to developing successful approaches to our nation’s inclusive development. The Letsema Process is key to driving inclusive stakeholder engagement, facilitating holistic wellbeing and building trust in fragile, vulnerable communities. With this approach as the foundation for the Renewal programme, the aim is to co-create alternate economic income streams, shifting communities future dependance on mining.
