LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

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

COMMUNITY SERVICE

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

PROFESSIONAL EXPOSURE

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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Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh

Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh is the son of a black father and a white mother. He is in his final year of undergraduate study majoring in philosophy, politics and economics at the University of Cape Town. In 2009, as a second year student, he was elected president of the Students' Representative Council (SRC) where he served until November 2010. He is an ambassador of the One Young World Summit, a rapper and the founder of a youth leadership training company called Grow2Lead.

He is currently Interning in the office of Congressman Donald Payne on Capitol Hill.

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South Africa's Best Kept Secret

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Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh
Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh is the son of a black father and a white mother. He is in his
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Meeting yet another group of impressive young South Africans has lead me to a deep realization about our country: the post apartheid generation, now in their early twenties, possesses all the beneficial historical conscience that the end of apartheid created but also possesses less of the harmful baggage that hindered the generations before it.

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