Surviving COVID-19: Catherine Constantinides opens up about a very scary night
Catherine Constantinides is a prominent South African thought leader and
environmentalist; a social entrepreneur, social justice
activist and human rights defender. She joins Brent Lindeque on his Good Things Guy podcast to talk about everything from her
near death experience with COVID-19 to fighting climate change.
Catherine Constantinides is a prominent South African thought leader and
environmentalist - focused on climate change, food and water security
and waste management. She's a social entrepreneur, social justice
activist and human rights defender.
Constantinides established her first business, SA Fusion, a social
enterprise, when she was 16.
She was involved in the introduction of the
Miss Earth concept to South Africa and was crowned the first Miss Earth
South Africa in 2003. She currently serves as director of Miss Earth
South Africa.
Constantinides is the co-founder of Generation Earth, a
youth-led environmental organisation.
During 2013 Constantinides was the
youngest of a group of 20 emerging Africans named as an Archbishop Tutu
Leadership Fellow.
She's written for the Huffington Post
on climate change politics and the situation in the Western Sahara and she is an outspoken critic of the actions of the Moroccan government in the
Western Sahara, describing the territory as the "last remaining colony
in Africa".
Constantinides has spoken of the Western Sahara as an "African state in
exile, a cause and people forgotten”.
In May 2016 Constantinides was
chosen as one of the Mandela Washington Fellows as part of the Young
African Leaders Initiative; an initiative of the United States
Department of State.
Meanwhile, Mark Sham - founder and CEO of Suits & Sneakers - believes that the internet has fundamentally changed the world and as a result, we can now learn about almost anything, at any time, in any location, and at virtually no cost. This form of learning is called informal education and Mark is passionate about showing the masses how to use this alternative way of learning to hack the value creation system.
Before founding Suits & Sneakers in 2015, Mark was a prolific entrepreneur who founded a host of businesses but ultimately, he realised that he wasn’t cut out for most of them and worked toward building Suits & Sneakers.
In this candid discussion, he and Good Things Guy Brent Lindeque talk about everything from Mark's lockdown government rant, which went viral; to his business journey along the years - to happiness, which is Mark's new mission. Listen to the JacPod podcast below.
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