Friday, 21 August 2026

Aubrey argued that the Bill of Rights and Ubuntu are not the same thing, saying South Africans were marketed human rights as if they were Ubuntu and that deserves a separate conversation next week.

Ngwanda Kumalo said her book Leading with Grace grew out of grief after losing both parents, and that proceeds will fund a Grace Leadership Fellowship for deserving “missing middle” students.

Kumalo said she now leads differently: less focused on status and more on creating opportunities for others, while her Soul Speaks project uses conversation cards to spark deeper family dialogue.

Derek Matthews said Freedom Recovery Center began in Nigel in 2008 and now runs multiple inpatient, halfway-house and outpatient programmes; he said addiction is often tied to trauma, broken trust and unmet potential.

Matthews said the township rise of nyaope after 2012 changed the addiction landscape, and that recovery works best with long-term aftercare, skills training, family involvement and counsellors who are themselves in recovery.