Erik de Ridder

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

A six month leadership curriculum both in South Africa and Washington, DC, supplemented by ongoing alumni opportunities.

COMMUNITY SERVICE

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Washington DC.

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Real world experience provided through six week work exposure in prestigious environments in Washington, DC.

The South Africa-Washington International Program is helping to inspire, prepare and support South African youth to lead a sustainable democracy with a peaceful and prosperous future for all its citizens.

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Erik de Ridder is an undergraduate student of civil engineering and economics at the University of Cape Town.

He firmly believes the pursuit of happiness, bound to the deepening of democracy, the proliferation of broader and substantive social justice, equality, and realization of peace and the fair rule of law, rooted in the principles of Ubuntu, to be the broader aspirational and categorical, pursuit of his generation.

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INDEX THIS | WASHINGTON DC

by Erik de Ridder on Sunday, 17 July 2011 Reflection 1 Comment

I have become product of my environment in so far as my environment has become a product of me. To say this to you is as saying it to me - notwithstanding the less than obvious soliloquy, such is the truth and absolute nature of agency.

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Heroes

by Erik de Ridder on Friday, 17 June 2011 Reflection 3 Comments

It's not about remembering our heroes as part of our legacy and heritage; it is about remembering their ideals and their magic and making it alive within ourselves. A name does not do to history what the motives for the actions of the agent do.