Dinokeng Scenarios Workshop and Dialogue Details

24 July 2009

Regenesys, in association with The Society for Organisational Learning: South Africa and The Dinokeng Scenarios, hosts a presentation and dialogue workshop based on the findings and message of this important initiative.

Date, Time and Venue

• Friday 24 July 2009
• 7:30 for 8:00 am to 11:30 am
• Regenesys ManagementJacaranda PlaceWoodmead Business Park145 Western Service RoadWoodmead, Sandton
• Cost: Attendance by invitation, RSVP essential as space is limited.
• Please register online before 10 July 2009

How have we done since 1994?

We have achieved a great deal, but we have also made some errors that potentially threaten our future. We face critical economic and social challenges – particularly in relation to unemployment and poverty, safety and security, education and health – exacerbated by the global economic crisis. All of us have contributed to our problems and must thereforecontribute to the solutions.

Where do we go from here? Which path will we choose?

The Dinokeng Scenario Team came together to take stock of where we are and to consider possible futures for South Africa.

The South African honeymoon is over:

• The “Mandela and liberation dividend” has been fully settled.
• The heart of our challenges is that we have failed to appreciate or understand the imperatives of running a modern democratic state.
• Leadership across all sectors lacks clarity and is increasingly self-interested and unaccountable.
• Our citizenry has been largely disengaged or co-opted into government or party structures since 1994, and has demonstrated a growing dependence on the state to provide everything.

The Scenario Team poses the following critical questions about the future of our country:

How can we as South Africans address our critical challenges before they become time bombs that destroy our accomplishments?

and

What can each one of us do – in our homes, communities and workplaces – to help build a future that lives up to the promise of 1994?

The Team’s scenarios offer three possible ways we might answer this question; three ways we might walk into and so create our future.
Join us to engage with these questions and help build a succesfull future for South Africa…

Please register online at before 10 July 2009

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THE DINOKENG SCENARIOS

In response to the critical challenges facing South Africa today, a group of 35 South Africans, from a wide spectrum of our society, gathered to probe our country’s present situation, and to consider the possible futures. This group covered the civil, government, political, business, public, trade, religious, academia and media groups.

Brought together by six convenors, all of whom are actively engaged in our national issues, the scenarios suggest three possible futures for South Africa, intended to stimulate action-oriented conversations among citizens.

THE SCENARIO TEAM

• Miriam Altman
• Frans Baleni
• Ann Bernstein
• Nkosinathi Biko
• Cheryl Carolus
• Angela Coetzee
• Ryan Coetzee
• Paul Hanratty
• Haniff Hoosen
• Moemedi Kepadisa
• Reuel Khoza
• Kallie Kriel
• Antjie Krog
• Mary Malete
• Daniel Mminele
• Namhla Mniki
• Aaron Motsoaledi
• Jay Naidoo
• Yogan Naidoo
• Maite Nkoana-Mashabane
• Thandi Nontenja
• Thami ka Plaatjie
• Sonja Sebotsa
• Raenette Taljaard
• Mathatha Tsedu
• Sim Tshabalala
• Musa Zondi

THE CONVENORS

• Mamphela Ramphele
• Njongonkulu Ndungane
• Graca Machel
• Bob Head
• Vincent Maphai
• Rick Menell

THE SECRETARIAT

• Matthew Bland
• Debra Marsden
• Ishmael Mkhabela
• Adam Kahane
• Yvonne Muthien
• Itumeleng Mahabane
• Sarah Babb
• Alayne Mannion
• Pippa Green

Please register online at before 10 July 2009 (Registration is now closed)

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