Heartlines and Nedbank are active in Grahamstown!
Just returned from an excellent workshop at Rhodes presented by the Heartlines team of Zamabongo Mojalefa and Jeff Cele – supported by Zathi Dlamini and Nosibulelo Xalu.
“Personal Values and Money.”
The key values themes discussed were:
– Honesty in Earning. (Down to nicking the office stationery!)
– Responsibility in Spending.
– Wisdom in Borrowing.
– Self-control in Saving.
– Generosity in Giving. (It’s not what it does for the other person, its what it does for you!)
I joined a group of Rhodes Students. Mostly post-grad from across Southern Africa. As an ice-breaker, we all greeted the group in a language other than our mother tongue. Aside from the obvious we had Chichewa and Chinyanja from Malawi. And sign-language too!
Congratulations to Blessings Chinganga who made all the arrangements for her fellow students.
Some of my favourite quotes from the session.
“Money is a horrible master but a great servant.”
“Money is just paper – it’s what you make of it that counts.” (let’s not get technical about e-money!)
“Someone without self-control is like a home without windows and doors.”
“Instalment amount is just a suggestion. Increase it.”
What are your money values?
Well done to Nedbank and Heartlines. A thoroughly worthwhile workshop.
Looking forward to joining you tomorrow at Mrwetyana School.
GRAEME HOLMES
Before moving back to Grahamstown in Oct 2017, Graeme was a bank executive based in the big smoke and craziness of Joburg. He has 20 years’ experience in the Payments Industry. He is a Chartered Accountant, has a Masters in Management by Research (MMR) from Wits Business School, and attended an Advanced Management Programme (AMP) offered by INSEAD (The Business School for the World!) in France.
Graeme is the founder of The Grahamstown Project. It’s simple. He says, “Grahamstown is a microcosm of South Africa. If we can’t get this place to function properly then the whole country is stuffed. Many of the troubles we experience as a country today have their roots here in Grahamstown. it is here where black and white people first engaged in conflict on the African continent. It is here where 9 wars of dispossession over 100 years took place and virtually destroyed the amaXhosa nation. But we are where we are. I don’t have a British passport and the boat-trip back to where my ancestors came from is exorbitantly expensive. Furthermore, this is my home. I am a son of Africa. We must work together to redress the injustices of the past and move as one into a brighter future.”
Graeme is an avid historian, writer, vlogger and public speaker. Like and follow the Facebook page. Join him on a tour. Contact him. He would love that.