Page 3 - MiNDSPACE Issue 2 2022 - Old Mutual Corporate

When the so-called Spanish flu shut down cities and towns
in 1918 and forced people to stay indoors, the telephone became hugely popular. People’s need to connect was
so great that they swamped switchboards and telephone operators, and phone companies eventually had to ask them to only make calls in an emergency.
A century later we have very different technology, but our need to connect has not changed – this was clear during the
first months of the Covid pandemic when people found new and different ways to connect.
welcome
Now that we appear
to be at the tail end of this pandemic, Martin Raymond, a renowned futurologist, believes
that we are on the
brink of a new age of cohesion driven by
more cohesive societies that value things like community, collaboration and cooperation.
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This sounds very much like our ubuntu – and no-one brings people together like Gift of the Givers and its founder Imtiaz Sooliman. He has
been leading this remarkable organisation for 30 years and we asked him what he has learnt about leadership in this time. Read our exclusive interview with him on page 10. It is equally inspiring to see that many of our contributors and interviewees echo this
commitment to togetherness in one way or another. Mandy Wiener writes about the vital importance of protecting and supporting whistleblowers on page 40 and on page 26 Agri SA Executive Director Christo van der Rheede explains why South Africa’s new cohort of young Black farmers must be helped to grow.
Closer to home, Old Mutual Corporate’s Managing Director, Prabashini Moodley, discusses what it means to be truly responsible as a business (page 32) and Nobesuthu Ndlovu, Old Mutual’s Director: SME, tells of the group’s commitment to helping small businesses to take a step up to the next growth phase on page 36.
Without a doubt, as this issue shows, there is a strong desire for working together and a tangible sense of collective responsibility – of no longer working separately, but of pulling together for our greater good.
Here’s to fostering a renewed spirit of togetherness.
Charlene Murphy Editor
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