CITIZENS WITH INTELECTUAL INSIGHT 

In an evolving world, and with increasing knowledge available, women and men from many countries have come forward with inspirational changes as below.

Brenda Katwesigye ` a Ugandan, tackled the disaster of some plastic waste in Africa, converting it to eyewear and to constructional material.

This is just a small endeavour in terms of what is still to be done.

Zhou ` a Chinese person from a poor rural background had inspiration to design glass tops for smart phones and laptops.

Nomusa Debe ` a Natalian politician endured in achieving planting programs to assist under privileged farmers.

Indra Nooyi ` an Indian entrepreneur persevered in the face of male appointments and became the CEO of Pepsi-Cola, a then famous drink. She is one of the top CEOs in the world.

Jennifer Hyman ` created a company “Rent the Runway” allowing the use of designer clothing to brides and their entourage.

Jutamat Narula ` designated woman of the year in Thailand with her strong commitment to merging beauty and design.

Hayley Barna ` in her wisdom created a company to send out beauty samples via mail.

Celine Dion ` the 14^th child in a struggling family, discovered that she had the voice to sing and has persevered with her rare disease to return to fame.    

Francois Pinault ` dropped out of school & received abuse as he was poor. Today he is the honoury chairman of St Lauren, Mc Queen and Gucci.

Ryan Bacher ` and his partners knew little about flowers, but Net Florist created by accident became South Africas largest online gifting company, Valentine’s Day being a “rave“ & fantastic money spinner.

Sarojini Naidu ` an Indian poet, in 1924 encouraged black Africans to unite in opposition to white majority rule.

Soichiro Honda ` a gentleman in his very early days helped his father to repair bicycles. At the age of fifteen, he went to Tokyo learning to be a mechanic, making piston rings for Toyota.

World war II and earth quakes ruined his progress, but he eventually created the brand “HONDA”.

In closing, regarding the many nationalities mentioned in the content, South Africa is one of the most multi-cultural countries in the world!

Thirty years into democracy, we can be proclaimed a proud nation!