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https://www.tedxjohannesburg.com/ 22-09-2012 20:53:21
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Jackie May Jackie May - Editor of Twyg, sustainability storyteller: "In Cape Town, 6% of landfill is garment waste... In Ghana, 40% of imported secondhand garments are waste, and end up in rivers." #HarmoniousStewrdship #17GlobalGoals #SDG12 #MandelaDay2024 #TEDxJoburg
Jackie May Jackie May: We all have a role to play as users and consumers of fashion... I envision a future where clothes last longer." #ResponsibleFashion #HarmoniousStewrdship #17GlobalGoals #SDG12 #MandelaDay2024 #TEDxJoburg
Zandile Ndhlovu Zandile Ndhlovu - aka Black Mermaid, ocean equity pioneer, social activist, and filmmaker talks about how she became the first South African Black female freediving instructor #HarmoniousStewrdship #17GlobalGoals #SDG14 #MandelaDay2024 #TEDxJoburg
Zandile Ndhlovu Zandile Ndhlovu: "My grandmom used to say - We've always lived with nature. Nature does not come before us, and we don't come before her." #SwimmingWithSharks #SwimmingWithWhales #HarmoniousStewrdship #17GlobalGoals #SDG14 #MandelaDay2024 #TEDxJoburg
Zandile Ndhlovu Zandile Ndhlovu says South Africa may be free today, but spatial planning still remains in Apartheid days. "How do you dream about the world you never seen before?" #FearOfWater #GiftOfBeingPresent #HarmoniousStewrdship #17GlobalGoals #SDG14 #MandelaDay2024
Zandile Ndhlovu Zandile Ndhlovu: "The ocean is always an invitation. An invitation about where we come from... Swimming must become a universal basic right... Swimming is an equaliser." #HarmoniousStewrdship #17GlobalGoals #SDG14 #MandelaDay2024 #TEDxJoburg
Tessa Dooms Tessa Dooms - Director at Rivonia Circle, democracy dynamo - says that democracy is due for an upgrade to world over. "Something is wrong with the way we are doing democracy." #HarmoniousStewrdship #17GlobalGoals #SDG16 #MandelaDay2024 #TEDxJoburg
Tessa Dooms Tessa Dooms shares her thoughts based on 3 crises about democracy. 1. Crisis of outcomes 2. Crisis of representation 3. Crisis of imagination #HarmoniousStewardship #17GlobalGoals #SDG16 #MandelaDay2024 #TEDxJoburg
Geraldine J Moleketi Geraldine J Moleketi - Governance expert, transformative leader: "#SDG17 - Strengthening the means of implementation and revitalizing the global partnership for sustainable development - is about partnership." #HarmoniousStewrdship #17GlobalGoals #MandelaDay2024
Geraldine J Moleketi Geraldine J Moleketi says we got to think of debt differently, especially for the least developed world. "If we want to change the world, we must be willing to finance it... Everyone wants to tell us how to do things." #17GlobalGoals #SDG17 #MandelaDay2024
Geraldine J Moleketi Geraldine J Moleketi says setting up AFFIRMATIVE FINANCE ACTION FOR WOMEN IN AFRICA took gate-crashing of meetings, etc. "We only have 2% of global trade at the moment [as Africa]." AfCFTA #HarmoniousStewardship #17GlobalGoals #SDG17 #MandelaDay2024 #TEDxJoburg
Geraldine J Moleketi Geraldine J Moleketi highlights how Africa is not using collective power. "Under SDG17, there's also reference to taxation. There's also a number of things." #EquitablePartnerships #DebtWriteoff #Geopolitics #HarmoniousStewardship #17GlobalGoals #SDG17 #MandelaDay2024
The #17GlobalGoals salon has come to the end. Thank you to the 17 speakers who talked on the 17 SDG’s. Thank you to the partners United Nations in South Africa GIBS Business School NelsonMandela for making this salon possible. #17GlobalGoals #SDG17 #MandelaDay2024 #TEDxJoburg