{"id":2336,"date":"2024-06-05T20:36:29","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T20:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geantesinvisibles.com\/?p=2336"},"modified":"2024-06-10T23:25:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T23:25:05","slug":"sibongile-bongi-mkhabela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geantesinvisibles.com\/en\/biography\/sibongile-bongi-mkhabela\/","title":{"rendered":"Sibongile (Bongi) Mkhabela"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2336\" class=\"elementor elementor-2336\" data-elementor-settings=\"{&quot;ha_cmc_init_switcher&quot;:&quot;no&quot;}\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ea257b0 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"ea257b0\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_ha_eqh_enable&quot;:false}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4f4098ec\" data-id=\"4f4098ec\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-25c3bd8a elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"25c3bd8a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">About Sibongile<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-26d273eb elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"26d273eb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sibongile (Bongi) Mkhabela, a social worker by profession and a passionate social activist by orientation currently\u00a0 spearheads the newly formed independent Barloworld Empowerment Foundation in the capacity of Chief Executive\u00a0 Director.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-28253902\" data-id=\"28253902\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2d552c3f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2d552c3f\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_ha_eqh_enable&quot;:false}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4b25ad98\" data-id=\"4b25ad98\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6c794c6c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6c794c6c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This independent Foundation has defined its mission to ignite self-belief and unleash resilient communities in\u00a0 Africa. The foundation focuses on developing women and youth by empowering them in the fields of entrepreneurship,\u00a0 education in all its forms, protection of the environment and social development.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Storytelling is one of the anchors of the\u00a0 Foundation and a vehicle for the shifting of the power dynamic to enable the communities it serves to lead the process of\u00a0 change and take ownership of the outcomes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ms. Mkhabela is notably the former Chief Executive Officer of the Nelson Mandela Children\u2019s Fund (NMCF) as well as the\u00a0 Nelson Mandela Children\u2019s Hospital Trust (NMCH Trust).\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her first steps as an activist were intuitive rather than political; as a child she recognized and questioned the banal and\u00a0 common indignities that shaped black lives. The young Bongi joined the student resistance as a leader in the Soweto\u00a0 Students Representative Council (SSRC) and the South African Students Movement General Secretary. She was part of the\u00a0 driving force behind the nation-wide June 16, 1976 student revolt which was a turning point in South Africa\u2019s the anti apartheid struggle.\u00a0 Bongi was charged with 10 other students for sedition in what became known as the \u201cSoweto 11\u201d Trial.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the only female\u00a0 student charged, she was nicknamed \u2018the rose among the thorns\u2019 and imprisoned for two years at a female prison in\u00a0 Kroonstad, in the Free State Province. Six years after the 1976 protests she was finally released in 1982. Time spent in the\u00a0 women\u2019s prison only resolved her commitment to fighting for the dignity of black lives and strengthening the position of\u00a0 African women.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After her release Bongi was served with several banning orders, laws limiting who she could be in contact with and\u00a0 restricting her movements to Zola Township. She made her hometown the epicentre of her activism. Under the auspices of\u00a0 the South African Council of Churches,<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bongi was trained by The Legal Resources Centre as a para-legal and founded the\u00a0 Zola Advice Office offering practical, social, and legal advice and assistance to people living under the rule of an oppressive\u00a0 state.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-11c5ad9 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"11c5ad9\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_ha_eqh_enable&quot;:false}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-499b42d\" data-id=\"499b42d\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f32186f elementor-widget elementor-widget-video\" data-id=\"f32186f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;youtube_url&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=dAd9uDDo0v8&amp;t=251s&quot;,&quot;video_type&quot;:&quot;youtube&quot;,&quot;controls&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"video.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-wrapper elementor-open-inline\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-video\"><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1fd83e6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1fd83e6\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_ha_eqh_enable&quot;:false}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9341818\" data-id=\"9341818\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1486c13 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1486c13\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most recently, she was awarded The Order of Luthuli (Silver) by the President of South Africa, Mr Cyril Ramaphosa, on 27\u00a0 April 2018. The award is in recognition of her fight against apartheid, her continued work in social justice and for her\u00a0 excellent contribution to the well-being of South Africa\u2019s children. She has also awarded an honorary doctorate in\u00a0 Philosophy by the Nelson Mandela University.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In her tenure as CEO of the Nelson Mandela Children\u2019s fund, Bongi moulded an African organization for social justice, and a\u00a0 critical player in issues affecting children, their families, and communities. The Nelson Mandela Children\u2019s Fund founded by\u00a0 Nelson Mandela has a footprint that extends beyond the borders of South Africa and encompasses Southern Africa.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Embracing Nelson Mandela\u2019s mission to change how society treats the African child, in the last decade Sibongile Mkhabela\u00a0 has been on a journey to ensure that the county\u2019s children have access to world-class tertiary healthcare and institutions\u00a0 devoted to their care. She led the Nelson Mandela Children\u2019s Hospital Trust, R1 Billion ($100m) capital campaign behind the\u00a0 Nelson Mandela Children\u2019s Hospital. Only the second of its kind in Southern Africa, the Children\u2019s Hospital now provides state-of-the-art tertiary paediatric care and aims to improve the quality of paediatric research and training in Sub-Saharan\u00a0 Africa.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is in this context that she built a relationship with the French government and its people. During her tenure at NMCF, the French government hosted South Africa\u2019s children and invited them to address a sitting of parliament. The French\u00a0 government was one of the lead donors and partners during the research phase of the Nelson Mandela Children\u2019s Hospital.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bongi presents a unique development perspective that incorporates grassroots action working with the Advice Offices and\u00a0 other grassroots initiatives as well as work with organizations with a national and global agenda.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Part of that experience saw her work in senior positions at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); serve the\u00a0 first democratically elected government as the Director responsible for programming in the Office of the President with\u00a0 specific reference to civil society-government partnerships as well as overseeing the implementation of\u00a0 The UN Children\u2019s\u00a0 Charter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A graduate from the University of Zululand, Bongi is also a Joel L. Fleishman Civil Society Policy Fellow at Duke University in North Carolina, USA. She also completed her postgraduate Business Management studies with the University of the\u00a0 Witwatersrand Business School in Johannesburg. In 2017, Mkhabela was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in\u00a0 Italy &#8211; a residency offering space to reflect and write about her experiences and the future of social justice movements.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bongi serves on various boards, including the USA based Global Philanthropy Alliance and she is former Chairperson and\u00a0 current Trustee of Black Sash. She continues to serve on the board of Nelson Mandela Children\u2019s Fund and the Nelson\u00a0 Mandela Children\u2019s Hospital. Bongi recently accepted an invitation to serve on the Firelight Board, California, USA.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her novel Open Earth and Black Roses recounts the ordinary and extraordinary tales of black families in Apartheid South Africa and she tells her personal experience as a young woman imprisoned, restless and resisting social injustice.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sibongile (Bongi) Mkhabela, a social worker by profession and a passionate social activist by orientation currently  spearheads the newly formed independent Barloworld Empowerment Foundation in the capacity of Chief Executive  Director. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography"],"aioseo_notices":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"G\u00e9antes Invisibles","author_link":"https:\/\/www.geantesinvisibles.com\/en\/author\/tijinou\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Sibongile (Bongi) Mkhabela, a social worker by profession and a passionate social activist by orientation currently spearheads the newly formed independent Barloworld Empowerment Foundation in the capacity of Chief Executive Director.","aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO Pro 4.9.6.2 - 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