Investec and Bertha Centre Present: Sibongile Khumalo

Bertha Centre partnered with Investec ahead of their Leadership Conference, which took place in February 2023, in producing pre-learning material for their conference attendees. The focus was on social impact and purpose and developing a portfolio of innovative responses in four broad socio-economic and environmental themes: Public health, 2) Public education, 3) Income, poverty, unemployment, 4) Climate & environment.

Public education: Sibongile Khumalo
Sibongile Khumalo is Executive Director of The Learning Trust, a non-profit donor and capacity development organisation that supports South Africa’s emerging after school sector. Having worked for over 15 years in extended learning programmes, youth development, systems change and scholarship management, she has extensive experience in non-profit operations and a passion for identifying and nurturing human potential. Her current work spans grant-making strategy formulation and implementation, research coordination, team leadership and sustainability. In 2013, Sibongile was named one of Mail & Guardian’s “200 Young South Africans”; and then awarded the YALI Mandela Washington Fellowship as an International Associate of Wagner College, NYC in 2016. Currently, she is a member of the Africa Leadership Initiative in South Africa (ALI-SA) as part of the Aspen Global Leadership Network (AGLN), and serves on the boards of NASCEE (National Association of Social Change Entities in Education); the Nedbank Private Wealth Foundations and Innovation Edge.

Filmed and edited by:
Odendaal Esterhuyse [odendaalesterhuyse.com]