2 hours
Aims | To help us to:
- Learn from other leaders about their key leadership moments, styles and learnings
- Engage their understandings of leadership challenges in struggles for social change
Task 1 Plenary
Engaging our panel of intergenerational leaders
The discussion will start from the most recent moment until the oldest moment. We will keep this session light and informal. The guest leaders will interact in a free-flowing dialogue with Fellows, sharing their stories and hearing our questions in an interactive conversation.
There is one common question that all our guest leaders will answer at the end of their reflections on their specific leadership journeys:
- What does it mean to lead in the social justice space and what’s required of leadership in the current period?
The leaders with us for our 2022 session are:
Shaeera Kalla, #FeesMustFall/#RhodesMustFall activist leader
- Lessons from #FeesMustFall of the challenges in organising/mobilising society – how can we replicate this, if at all, for health/ health equity or other societal issues?
Sibongile Tshabalala, an activist leader in public health particularly HIV/TAC movement
- To what extent has the TAC (Treatment Action Campaign) achieved health equity through the struggle for affordable treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS?
Faeza Meyer, activist organising working class women and communities in Cape Town on housing, the right to the city and water decommodification
- Challenges and lessons from mobilising for social change during apartheid and what can we learn from activists that organised during the apartheid era?
- What leadership and activist lessons can we learn from ongoing struggles in working class townships?