LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

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

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A core element of SAWIP, expressed through individual and team projects, both in South Africa and
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

Erik de Ridder

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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Erik de Ridder
Erik de Ridder is an undergraduate student of civil engineering and economics at
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on Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Leadership 0 Comment

 

A vexing question: What does it or should it mean to be a young leader in South Africa today?

 

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“Future, on canvas” | Congressional Forum Speech

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Erik de Ridder is an undergraduate student of civil engineering and economics at
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on Wednesday, 13 July 2011
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"This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease." As it were, Robert Kennedy stated this in a speech delivered at the University of Cape Town, 1966.

 

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Where are the youth of which we speak

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Erik de Ridder is an undergraduate student of civil engineering and economics at
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on Friday, 08 July 2011
Experience 1 Comment

The most significant block of youth in the country, which we speak of the very often, are likely to never have read anything written about them in major news forums.

 

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Heroes

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Erik de Ridder is an undergraduate student of civil engineering and economics at
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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. 


 

 

 

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