I was 15 years old when I first heard the name Mandela, or Madiba, as he is fondly known in Africa. In apartheid South Africa he was public enemy number one. Shrouded in secrecy, myth and rumour, the media called… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
I first met Nelson Mandela when I was in my late 20s, in 1993. I was helping facilitate an African National Congress (ANC) workshop to plan its media strategy. I went down to meet him for the first time and… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
Investing one cent more in oil, coal and gas is investing in the death of society, and the in the death of our children. — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
In Durban, where I was born and grew up, and all over Africa, Nelson Mandela was a hero! Now he is a hero to… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
With an agenda dominated by global security and U.N. reform, it appears that the decisions needed to lift millions of people from abject poverty… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be doing much… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
Nelson Mandela once said "I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I'm not going to protest." — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
[Nelson] Mandela was very keen not to be understood as an exceptional person. — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
The Social License is fundamentally about accountability to people and not just powerful interests. John Morrison’s book reminds all organizations – governments, business and… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
Nelson Mandela was just a human being, a person like other people, and everyone relaxed. Within a minute, that sort of thing about the… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
I was 15 years old when I first heard the name Mandela, or Madiba, as he is fondly known in Africa. In apartheid South… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
Many people theorize poverty, but so many elements of poverty, individually, for most people who theorize about poverty would be really difficult to even… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
Nelson's Mandela own sense of himself was a very humble reading, [different] from how the world read him. And, quite often, you had the… — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
There is no definition of terrorism and there is still the reality that one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter. — Kumi Naidoo Copy Share Image
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