The African Leadership Development Programme is an intensive development programme that aims to strengthen leadership skills in the continent and build greater institutional capacity.

The first intake of emerging leaders have found the course to be riveting and well worth considering for any future leader. The African Leadership Programme has furthermore received much exposure in the media with television interviews on SABC Africa, SABC Morning Live and CNBC Africa.

The programme is targeted at managers and professionals from both the private and public sector who have recently been appointed to learship positions. There are four blocks in total, the final one includes the overseas trip to USA, Europe and Africa. The programme fee is R120,000.00 and this includes all teaching, course materials, etc as well as the overseas travel.

The dates for this first progrmme are as follows:

• Blocks 1 and 2
  28 October – 09 November 2007
• Block 3
  28 January – 01 February 2008
• Block 4
  10 – 14 March 2008
• Block 5 and 6
  21 April – 06 May 2008 (including international study tour)

*** Please note 2008 dates are subject to final confirmation.

We believe that this is a unique programme in that it offers wonderful networking opportunities, has content that is tailored to Africa’s needs and has a rigorous academic component that is examined, which then leads to a University Certificate of Competence.

For more information please contact Wendy Carter on +27 11 717 3569 / carter.w@wbf.ac.za

Closing date for all applications is the 31st August 2007.

In one of the classroom lectures on leadership and what it means to be and African the quotation below from a student currently on the course encapsulates the enthusiastic energy emanating from this Leadership Programme:

"An emancipated mind free of any collar from the past, present or future. A view that oppresses / conditions negativity. Embracing the diversity across all and utilizing all potential to the benefit of Africa.

Understanding that in our individual uniqueness the combined power of all with one vision and mission is more powerful than fragmented views of those that have attempted to condition us into thinking that Africa is a Third World and will always be a Third World country. We will still stretch out our hands not to receive but to give.

"It is Ubuntu that dictates that each person is as important as the other. God bless Africans!"

Layla Gibbons
Credit Assessment Manager
MTN
South Africa