College of Business and Economics Annual Report 2017 16 COMMUNITY SERVICE, STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT, NATIONAL AND GLOBAL REPUTATION MANAGEMENT PUBLIC LECTURES Forty public lectures included topics such as: “African Leadership: Rediscovering and re-internalising the practice of humanity” by Vusi Vilakati; “The Game of Change: New industries and the new skills to drive these industries” by Dion Chang; a PanAfrican thought leadership conversation on “Decolonising management studies and fostering critical management studies in South Africa” and “Publishing of scholarly open access books - following the NSBPF process of peer review”. CONCLUSION AND WAY FORWARD In reflecting on new beginnings, attention is drawn to President Cyril Ramaphosa, who in delivering his first State of the Nation Address, touched our hearts by quoting the late and great Hugh Masekela’s song ‘Thuma Mina’: “I wanna be there when the people start to turn it around When they triumph over poverty I wanna be there when the people win the battle against AIDS I wanna lend a hand I wanna be there for the alcoholic I wanna be there for the drug addict I wanna be there for the victims of violence and abuse I wanna lend a hand Send me.” Vusi Vilakati Dion Chang CBE Administrative Staff with Prof van Lill (Bottom, right)
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