TEDxObserver - Rosemary Nalden and Buskaid - The stories and songs of the Townships
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Rosemary Nalden and Buskaid Musician, teacher, mentor Rosemary arrived in Soweto nearly 20 years ago after she heard about a group of children who were struggling to learn music. She arrived to help fundraise and to teach. Now, as Founder of Buskaid and director of the Buskaid Soweto String Project - she has spent nearly 20 years teaching music... Read more
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- -: TEDxObserver - Rosemary Nalden and Buskaid - The stories and songs of the Townships
March 23, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Rosemary Nalden and Buskaid Musician, teacher, mentor Rosemary arrived in Soweto nearly 20 years ago after she heard about a group of children who were struggling to learn music. She arrived to help fundraise and to teach. Now, as Founder of Buskaid and director of the Buskaid Soweto String Proj...
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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 - 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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- -: TEDxSoweto - Jenny Buccos - Global Citizenship
October 17, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Jenny is an agent for global citizenship. New York based, Jenny left the corporate world to co-found ProjectExplorer in 2003 as a way to provide students with access to peoples and places they may never have seen or knew existed. In five years, ProjectExplorer.org went from a simple idea to a wor...
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- -: TEDxSoweto - Bronwen McConkey - The Virtual School
October 24, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Bronwen is an e-learning luminary. She has been working on ICT and education in Africa for over 5 years - beginning in Ghana's Volta region where she was made Queen Mother in recognition of her efforts to support education. Bronwen is currently Managing Director Social Enterprise for Fusion Unive...
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- -: On Board: The First Lady Speaks About Meeting Nelson Mandela
June 23, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)At the Young African Women Leaders Forum in Soweto, South Africa, the First Lady, Michelle Obama, speaks about meeting Nelson Mandela and gives advice to young women in a breakout session.
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