ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS & THANKS
Special Acknowledgement and Big Thanks to:
Onsite Organising Team
Without the incredible work of over 30 people from all over the world, Initiatives of Change South Africa and Rommel Roberts’ crew the Conference would never have happened! Many more were involved in the whole process of preparing, book-keeping, IT-support, …
University of the Freestate UFS
under the lead of Rector Jonathan Jansen and with the amazing assistance of Ilze Nikolova in all matters of the onsite organisation
Bloemfontein Municipality
under the lead of the Executive Mayor Thabo Manyoni and with most generous assistance of his team under the lead of Leonard Makhanya
Kimberley Municipality
under the lead of the Executive Mayor K D Molusi and with cooperation of Goolam Akharwaray
Platfontein Community
over 100 people preparing the Platfontein Day and giving us a very warm welcome
Presenters of Speeches and Workshops
from all over the world. They all dared coming to a conference that took place for the first time and had no references yet.
Delegates from all over the world
who were willing to trust us and contributed from their perspective.
Interpreters
four young Swiss (Patrizia, Manuela, Daniela and Tobias) worked for free
Photography & Video
Kimanthi and Mike produced excellent photos and videos and worked many hours pro bono.
Sponsors
Fortunately we had delegates who paid more than required. Thanks for relieving our budget!
