TEDxSoweto - Rita Doherty.mp4
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Rita directs communication strategies for some of South Africa's favorite brands. As head of strategy at ad agency Draftfcb, Rita and her team tested what they felt were persistent stereotypes of township moms. Their study involved in-depth conversations with young women - all employed mothers, living in Soweto or Alexandria. While the findings ... Read more
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- -: TEDxSoweto - Rita Doherty.mp4
February 1, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Rita directs communication strategies for some of South Africa's favorite brands. As head of strategy at ad agency Draftfcb, Rita and her team tested what they felt were persistent stereotypes of township moms. Their study involved in-depth conversations with young women - all employed mothers, l...
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- -: TEDxSoweto - Rita Doherty
January 31, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Rita directs communication strategies for some of South Africa's favorite brands. As head of strategy at ad agency Draftfcb, Rita and her team tested what they felt were persistent stereotypes of township moms. Their study involved in-depth conversations with young women - all employed mothers, l...
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- -: TEDxSoweto - Spoek Mathambo
January 31, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Spoek is an afro-futurist and township tech musical pioneer extraordinaire. Skilled as a rapper/DJ and graphic designer/illustrator, Spoek sees himself as part of a new wave of African artists intent on nurturing a sense of progressiveness while maintaining pride in culture. As front man for elec...
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- -: TEDxSoweto - Stafford Masie
January 31, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Stafford is recognised as a disruptive strategist and a tech futurist. He has started and sold his own consulting and engineering services company; driven global partnerships and corporate technology strategy for tech giant Novell in Latin America, Middle East, Sub Saharan Africa and Southern Eur...
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- -: TEDxSoweto - Taddy Blecher
January 31, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Taddy is a world-renowned pioneer of the free education movement. In 1999 he and his colleagues opened the doors to CIDA City Campus, South Africa's first ever free university. Since then, over 4500 disadvantaged young people have achieved four-year business degrees and new chances in life. In 20...
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- -: TEDxKliptown - Thulani Madondo - Technology and Education
July 6, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Thulani Madondo of Kliptown Youth Project, demonstrates the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project in Kliptown, Soweto. About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-...
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- -: TEDxSoweto - The Brother Moves On
July 9, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)The Brother Moves On evokes the spirit of the artist as a mediator between the real, the surreal and the "keeping-it-real" worlds that make life worthy of its own breath. Their music is an eclectic fusion of sounds that could be loosely classified as World Music, is distinctly South African, with...
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- -: The First Lady's Trip to Africa
June 16, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)The First Lady delivers a message before leaving on her Africa trip, urging young people to engage with each other in order to find commonalities.
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- -: First Family Reads The Cat In The Hat
June 21, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)At Emthonjeni Community Center in Zandspruit Township, South Africa, the First Family read Dr. Seuss's The Cat In The Hat to local children. Located just outside of Jonnesburg, Emthonjeni Community Center provides learning opportunities to children in an underserved community. The First Family ...
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- -: On Board: First Day with The First Lady in South Africa
June 22, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)After arriving in South Africa, First Lady Michelle Obama spent her first day in Johannesburg where she dropped by the Mandella Foundation, visited an under-served community center to donate books, toured the Apartheid Musuem. Also, In an anticipation of the Young African Women's Leaders Forum, ...
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