Some of our students!
Ubuma Leadership was established in 2014 to build a transformative and just society that will value the lives of all who live in it. At Ubuma we strive to affect change by growing ethical and moral leadership and by being our people’s keeper in all struggles.
Build today the Leaders we need tomorrow
The Ubuma African Leadership Course is a leadership development initiative where schools send some of their top learners to be a part of a rigorous leadership development programme that is spread over 40 hours. At the end of the course, the leaders need to develop a project that will solve a problem their community has been facing. Through the Ubuma African Leadership Course, Ubuma has mentored 150 young leaders over the past six years.
There are 7 core objectives:
In our effort as advocates against gender based violence, sexual harassment, rape, and femicide Ubuma Leadership founded The Black Men’s Imbizo. The Black Men’s Imbizo is a national conversation bringing together black men of all ages around to discuss and formulate solutions to the challenges of black male identity and masculinity. The Black Men’s Imbizo gathers youths, professionals, academics, students, community, traditional and religious leaders in the black community. All participants engage in a discussion which at its core seeks to find ways in which we (as a society) can change adult male behavior when it comes to gender-based violence, persistent rape, femicide and sexual harassment.
The Imbizo focuses on the themes:
In the year 2018, July, Ubuma Leadership successfully held the first Black Men’s Imbizo at Wits University in partnership with the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies; as well as two men’s dialogues at the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO). The digital link is below:
The Black Men’s Imbizo Champions wrote poems to their younger selves for a group of boys we are currently mentoring in Orlando. These poems were so powerful and moving that we put together a few of them and thought we should share them in a video. The champions recite their testimonies in isiXhosa, Lingala, isiZulu, Sepedi, Yoruba, Xitsonga, English and French. A truly pan-African testimony of the black male transition into manhood. Click on this poems link to see the poems. You can also click on this recital link to listen to the poems being recited by the champions.
The Justice Dialogue is a forum dedicated to building consensus on issues of justice. The Justice Dialogue also seeks on a national level to develop progressive understanding of the Constitution and on an international level seeks to contribute to the entrenchment of Human Rights. Our first Justice Dialogue brought together our nation’s most eminent legal, academic, activist and social minds on the issue of patriarchy and sexism in law. We hosted our fist Justice Dialogue on 14th September 2019 at the Women’s Jail in Constitution Hill.
Ubuma Leadership in partnership with the Constitution Hill, The Law Students Coucnil and the Golden Key Society hosted Condoms, Courts and Patriarchy. This dialogue convened stakeholders from the public sectors to have an intergenerational conversation on the effectiveness of the South African law and Constitution when it comes to the protection of women's agency, lives, and bodies. Our guest speakers were separated into the three panel discussions titled;
