Jay Naidoo

Jay Naidoo
SPECIAL EVENT: Fireside chat with an Elder
Jay Naidoo is an Elder, grandfather and social activist. He has played many roles from a student, community, political and union activist in the past. These include: Founding General Secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, Minister of Reconstruction and Development and then Communications in President Mandela’s Cabinet, Board member Mo Ibrahim Foundation & Founding member Africans Rising. Today he is a volunteer working towards an authentic intergenerational conversation in Africa and globally. He supports a radical collaboration with youth and women grassroots leaders that co-creates a new activism based on movement building that puts and alternative paradigm, ecology and indigenous wisdom at its centre. “We need to break the bondage of a toxic patriarchy that has poisoned our relationships with each other, the millions of other species we share our planet with and our very Mother Earth.”