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Ex Offenders
ROBERT MOLEFE
Robert Molefe was born at Soweto in Meadowlands Zone 3. He started doing drugs and crime at the age of 11. In 1995 he was arrested for housebreaking and found not guilty. In 1997 he was arrested in Pretoria for car theft and housebreaking and was given a 5 year suspended sentence. The same year he was arrested for possession of an illegal firearm and also found not guilty. In 1998 he was arrested for murder and housebreaking and the charges were withdraw...
Ex Offenders
ROBERT MOLEFE
Robert Molefe was born at Soweto in Meadowlands Zone 3. He started doing drugs and crime at the age of 11. In 1995 he was arrested for housebreaking and found not guilty. In 1997 he was arrested in Pretoria for car theft and housebreaking and was given a 5 year suspended sentence. The same year he was arrested for possession of an illegal firearm and also found not guilty. In 1998 he was arrested for murder and housebreaking and the charges were withdrawn. In 2000 he was arrested again for robbery. While he was in awaiting trial he escaped from the prison and after 34 days was re-arrested. While he was attending the court for the two charges he was again charged for the 1998 murder case, he was sentenced to 2 years for escape, 3 years for robbery and 17 years for murder. He applied for the appeal for the murder case, and was found not guilty. This left him with 5 years to serve.
During his incarceration he served his sentence in Johannesburg Prison and was then transferred to Baviaanspoort Prison where he participated in Arts and Culture and Music programmes. In 2002 he was again transferred to Leeuwkop Prison and then later to Pretoria Central Prison.
In 2004 he joined Khulisa. While he was attending the Khulisa programme he started to discover lot of things about himself, he started to be loyal to himself and to the programme. He participated in the My Path Programme and the Peer Drug Counselling Course. Whilst he was involved in the programme he was released on parole after serving 4 years and 1 month.
After his release Khulisa put him on a Learnership Programme. He was involved in the Cross-Media Training for Silk Screen-Printing Course and now Khulisa is helping him to become a successful entrepreneur.
ABIOT MADIBA – ASSISTANT PROJECT COORDINATOR
Abiot turns 27 in November this year. Abiot works in the Hammanskraal office and facilitates Ubuntu Clubs and also coordinates Indigenous Games in a number of villages within the area.
Abiot is an ex offender who went through Khulisa’s rehabilitation and Peer drug and HIV course in Leeuwkop prison. Abiot grew up in a rural village in Mpumalanga which is a province within SA. His village is 64km from our Hammnaskraal office, he currently resides in a village within the Hammanskraal area which falls under the North West Province.
Abiot’s parents were separated when he was very young and his mother then married another man who became a very abusive step father towards his mother as well as Abiot and hid siblings. The abuse Abiot endured led him to start abusing drugs at the age of 14 and he then started dropping out of school. His mother sent him to live with his Grandmother and his resentment and anger grew. The angrier he became the more he abused drugs and started to mix with other delinquents. Abiot slipped deeper and deeper into self destruction.
At the age of 15 Abiot was arrested for a sexual offence and in 2002 he was sentenced to 8 years imprisonment. Abiot continued with his downward spiral and mixed with negative people within the Correctional facility, he for the first time started to learn about other cultures and also had an opportunity to mix with people who had committed many violent offences at a very young age.
Things for Abiot changed when he enrolled for Khulisa’s course, initially he enrolled purely to gain favour from the Parole Board but after attending the programme began to realize that he could have a second chance in his life. The course allowed him to explore and understand himself and through introspection he began to change his decisions, he started to align himself with more positive people within the Correctional institution and started studying again. Abiot completed a N1 and N2 a technical certificate and did Khulisa courses which included My path – the rehabilitation course based on cognitive behavioural therapy, HIV & AIDS Peer education, Street law and basic counseling skills.
Through his work with other offenders delivery Drug and HIV awareness Abiot realized that he had a passion for working with people and new skills that could help in his own community.
When Abiot was released he began delivering drug and HIV awareness in two of the local schools in Hammanskraal where he was now staying. Abiot has become a role model in his community and was instrumental in setting up the Hammanskraal office. Through Abiots continued determination and hard work many changes have come about not only in his community but in the wider Hammanskraal area. Abiot became a Father in 2009 and is a fantastic parent, his ability to understand the negative influences in life has equipped him with incredible insight and understanding of the risks facing youth in the community.
LUCIUS MUSHWANA
Lucius Mushwana, 30, works full-time at Johannesburg’s busy produce market and is studying to complete a bachelor’s degree in business. The rest of his time is devoted to working with youth in his sprawling, crime-ridden community, devising activities to keep them engaged and out of trouble.
An ordinary life in South Africa?? Not exactly.
Eight years ago, Lucius was in prison, serving an 18-year sentence for armed robbery. Dabbling in drugs and crime since the age of 9, Lucius was just one more troubled black youth growing up in the “new” South Africa, where millions are robbed of an ordinary life due to parental deaths from AIDS, pervasive violent crime, and dysfunctional family life.
Lucius’ prospects took a sudden turn for the better in 2002, when a local South African NGO, Khulisa, began offering offenders the opportunity to become peer educators for substance abuse, which is rife in South African prisons. Lucius was selected to participate in the very first programme…and nothing has been the same since.
“Through the skills I acquired, I came up with good initiatives/projects inside the prison and I felt the need to share what I have learnt with other offenders. Through all that, I managed to change my life to the better and influenced the others to do the same.
We started a project called CASAP (Crime and Substance Abuse Prevention) and we managed to see over 500 school kids -- I still get messages of gratitude from some of the kids. I saw this as my way of making amends to people that I have harmed/wronged and could not directly go to them and say sorry.“
The more than 20 programmes developed by Khulisa for use in South Africa’s prisons, schools and high-risk communities are geared precisely to awaken such feelings and responses. They encourage offenders to assume responsibility for their actions, leading to an acknowledgement of the harm done and a desire to make amends – either directly with crime victims or indirectly, through community service. The philosophy of restorative justice underpins all Khulisa’s programmes.
But the changes in Lucius’ life did not stop there. In 2003 Khulisa brought a Leaders Quest delegation to Johannesburg Medium C Maximum Security Prison for Juveniles. Lucius remembers their visit well:
“Prison is a very lonely place and any diversion is a welcome respite. When it is people who have obviously got a genuine interest in doing something for the prisoners, then it is even more special. It gives one so much hope just to think that there are people out there who care about them.”
Leaders Quest and Khulisa maintained constant contact in the ensuing years with a keen interest always being shown in the development of the individuals who participated in that very first delegation.
The interest shown by an outside group such as Leaders Quest served as a strong motivation to continue the work, Lucius recalls. He stayed in touch with Lindsay Levin who led the original delegation.
Lindsay Levin, CEO of Leaders Quest, forwarded to the group a number of recently published motivational books which were a great source of inspiration to the participants.
In the interim Khulisa and Leaders Quest forged a strong relationship with great opportunities being created by further Quests for in-prison and community-based opportunities for personal and skills development and re-entry possibilities for offenders.
In 2007, Lucius’ good work in the prison earned him an early 6-year release. As an adult with a new mind-set, Lucius never considered returning to crime, but after his release, felt lost:
“While in prison and engaging in positive and constructive programmes, I always dreamed and wished to work towards setting goals, planning my life and the way I want to live it post-release. After I was released I realized that the outside world was a challenge: competition, fate, distractions and despair. I needed to talk to someone who could understand my perception towards life and how I could best adapt and create my way of life without fear, false expectations and without getting into other people’s paths.”
Upon his release Lucius turned to Khulisa, where with support from staff, he founded and ran a youth development organisation in Soweto.
“The group is aimed at reaching thousands of young people at risk of drugs and crime that springs from boredom, unemployment and poverty. I worked with two other ex-offenders to offer dance, poetry, music and drama classes for vulnerable young people. We also offered HIV/AIDS information, life skills and motivational talks to schools and churches.”
During a further Leaders Quest hosted by Lucius and a group of ex-offenders Lindsay identified Lucius as an ideal candidate for consideration of support by the Leaders Quest Foundation. This led to a grant being agreed on for his community work, as well as the amount he needed to pay his tuition at the University of South Africa.
The grant “helped us so much, and we were really able to make a big difference in young people’s lives by establishing school holiday programmes, more recreational activities and we were able to purchase a laptop for administration purposes. This particular donation was as a result of the philanthropy of Mr Paul Fletcher, who I would personally like to thank most sincerely for having the faith in me and what I would be able to do with the money granted to us. I would like to say that his faith and trust was an inspiration that kept me going.”
In early 2009 Khulisa involved Lucius in the Gateway Project, which was implemented jointly with the City of Jo’burg. The Gateway project created opportunities for ex-offenders to shadow city employees and thus become eligible for a job, after undergoing personal development and work-readiness training from Khulisa. This process led to Lucius’ current full-time employment at the City Produce Market – no small feat for an ex-offender in an economy with so much employment.
Lucius strongly believes that the support he received from Leaders Quest and Khulisa has helped him to become a role model in his community.
“I am often consulted to assist in disputes and people come to me to seek advice and guidance. I have managed to positively influence a lot of young people to stay out of crime and drugs and general youth delinquencies. I hope that they see me as being the kind of person that they would emulate.
In all my daily dealings, I try to take the high road and guide people to the best of my ability. I have done this specifically since gaining better communication skills and by using my ‘leading by example’ skills. I understand the need for integrity, and how I need to conduct myself in this regard.”
In the future, Lucius said he looks forward to establishing more youth centres to help more children learn and live by positive social values. At the personal level, he wants to continue his studies, have a family and be a good parent, own a home and be accepted and respected by society.
While many prisoners share these dreams, Lucius is one of the lucky few. With support when he most needed it, he is already on the road to fulfilling them.
Richard Ngoma Profile
My name is Richard Ngoma and I am currently serving an 18 year sentence. I have already spent 9 years of my sentence and I will be released on the 11th November 2009. I am 26 years old and I was sentenced at the age of 17. My parents passed away when I was still very young and my grandmother became my guardian.
I went inside the prison a disappointed and very bitter young boy,. I did self development programmes such as anger management, Stress management, life skills and Khulisa’s My Path programme. These programmes helped me a lot during my incarceration and helped me to take full responsibility plus it helped me prepare myself for a better future. The biggest part was that it helped me to deal with my emotions and more importantly it provided me with important coping skills.
Empowering and equipping myself with helpful information has always being in my mind. In 2004 I matriculated in prison and then applied for a bursary from Khulisa. Fortunately Lesley Ann managed to assist me and as a result I am studying for a BCom majoring in Law through UNISA.
Over the past years I have been extensively involved with Khulisa in the delivery of Peer Drug education programmes in different Correctional centers. I have also delivered HIV/AIDS awareness programmes and estimate that over the years I have reached in excess of 2 000 inmates. I have also been involved with C.A.S.A.P which addresses substance abuse and criminal behaviour. This programme is run in conjunction with the SAPS and invites school children into the Correctional Centers and through this I have reached approximately 5 000 children.
Through the help of Khulisa in 2005 I made an effort to apologize to the family of my victim, unfortunately this was unsuccessful but this has not deterred me from playing an active role in the restorative justice programme introduced by Khulisa in JHB Medium C prison.
In conclusion I have through the years displayed incredible tenacity, courage and determination. I am an extremely capable individual in whom Khulisa has placed the utmost trust in the delivery of Peer Education programmes to thousands of inmates and community members over the years. I recently received a letter of employment from Khulisa and my vision is to ensure that I uphold the societal values and morals that are upheld in my community and to combat crime and eradicate poverty ultimately.
Sabelo James Mngomezulu
Personal profile
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Date of Birth: 17 February 1976
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Marital Status: Single
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Languages: isiZulu, isiSwati, xhosa, Sotho English and Portuguese
Academic qualifications
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Attended Primary school at Indzevane (Swaziland) and High school at Zombizwe High and Ingwavuma High School (South Africa)
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Sat for matriculation examination at Ingwavuma high school, KZN (2000)
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Undertook first year Dentistry degree with the university of Witwatersrand Johannesburg (2003 – 2007) ( did not complete)
Career/work experience/other activities
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Worked for Mosvold Hospital (KZN) during University breaks as a trainee Dentist
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Joined Khulisa Crime prevention Initiative ( October 2008)
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Underwent a personal development programme with Khulisa (2008)
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I was trained as a Master trainer for various Khulisa programmes (2009) these include (Silence The Violence, Character Matters, Diversion, Community Crime Prevention, Drug Smart, Connect Programme and HIV/AIDS)
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I obtained a facilitation Skills certificate from BizzCom (2010)
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I Facilitated Silence The Violence Programme in the UK, North West Province, Gauteng (Gateway Project),
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I facilitated Public Speaking, Facilitation Skills and Conflict resolution for the Parliamentary Millennium Programme (PMP)
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I facilitated HIV/AIDS programme in North west, Mpumalanga, and Eastern Cape
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I coordinated the Gateway project (2009)
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I was appointed a team Leader for National Programmes (2010)
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I was appointed Team leader Reinvent innovations (2010)
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Facilitated character matters programme for (Capacity Growth)
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Co-facilitated the Connect programme for (CSIR) staff members (2010)
Ex Offenders
ROBERT MOLEFE
Robert Molefe was born at Soweto in Meadowlands Zone 3. He started doing drugs and crime at the age of 11. In 1995 he was arrested for housebreaking and found not guilty. In 1997 he was arrested in Pretoria for car theft and housebreaking and was given a 5 year suspended sentence. The same year he was arrested for possession of an illegal firearm and also found not guilty. In 1998 he was arrested for murder and housebreaking and the charges were withdraw...
Ex Offenders
ROBERT MOLEFE
Robert Molefe was born at Soweto in Meadowlands Zone 3. He started doing drugs and crime at the age of 11. In 1995 he was arrested for housebreaking and found not guilty. In 1997 he was arrested in Pretoria for car theft and housebreaking and was given a 5 year suspended sentence. The same year he was arrested for possession of an illegal firearm and also found not guilty. In 1998 he was arrested for murder and housebreaking and the charges were withdrawn. In 2000 he was arrested again for robbery. While he was in awaiting trial he escaped from the prison and after 34 days was re-arrested. While he was attending the court for the two charges he was again charged for the 1998 murder case, he was sentenced to 2 years for escape, 3 years for robbery and 17 years for murder. He applied for the appeal for the murder case, and was found not guilty. This left him with 5 years to serve.
During his incarceration he served his sentence in Johannesburg Prison and was then transferred to Baviaanspoort Prison where he participated in Arts and Culture and Music programmes. In 2002 he was again transferred to Leeuwkop Prison and then later to Pretoria Central Prison.
In 2004 he joined Khulisa. While he was attending the Khulisa programme he started to discover lot of things about himself, he started to be loyal to himself and to the programme. He participated in the My Path Programme and the Peer Drug Counselling Course. Whilst he was involved in the programme he was released on parole after serving 4 years and 1 month.
After his release Khulisa put him on a Learnership Programme. He was involved in the Cross-Media Training for Silk Screen-Printing Course and now Khulisa is helping him to become a successful entrepreneur.
ABIOT MADIBA – ASSISTANT PROJECT COORDINATOR
Abiot turns 27 in November this year. Abiot works in the Hammanskraal office and facilitates Ubuntu Clubs and also coordinates Indigenous Games in a number of villages within the area.
Abiot is an ex offender who went through Khulisa’s rehabilitation and Peer drug and HIV course in Leeuwkop prison. Abiot grew up in a rural village in Mpumalanga which is a province within SA. His village is 64km from our Hammnaskraal office, he currently resides in a village within the Hammanskraal area which falls under the North West Province.
Abiot’s parents were separated when he was very young and his mother then married another man who became a very abusive step father towards his mother as well as Abiot and hid siblings. The abuse Abiot endured led him to start abusing drugs at the age of 14 and he then started dropping out of school. His mother sent him to live with his Grandmother and his resentment and anger grew. The angrier he became the more he abused drugs and started to mix with other delinquents. Abiot slipped deeper and deeper into self destruction.
At the age of 15 Abiot was arrested for a sexual offence and in 2002 he was sentenced to 8 years imprisonment. Abiot continued with his downward spiral and mixed with negative people within the Correctional facility, he for the first time started to learn about other cultures and also had an opportunity to mix with people who had committed many violent offences at a very young age.
Things for Abiot changed when he enrolled for Khulisa’s course, initially he enrolled purely to gain favour from the Parole Board but after attending the programme began to realize that he could have a second chance in his life. The course allowed him to explore and understand himself and through introspection he began to change his decisions, he started to align himself with more positive people within the Correctional institution and started studying again. Abiot completed a N1 and N2 a technical certificate and did Khulisa courses which included My path – the rehabilitation course based on cognitive behavioural therapy, HIV & AIDS Peer education, Street law and basic counseling skills.
Through his work with other offenders delivery Drug and HIV awareness Abiot realized that he had a passion for working with people and new skills that could help in his own community.
When Abiot was released he began delivering drug and HIV awareness in two of the local schools in Hammanskraal where he was now staying. Abiot has become a role model in his community and was instrumental in setting up the Hammanskraal office. Through Abiots continued determination and hard work many changes have come about not only in his community but in the wider Hammanskraal area. Abiot became a Father in 2009 and is a fantastic parent, his ability to understand the negative influences in life has equipped him with incredible insight and understanding of the risks facing youth in the community.
LUCIUS MUSHWANA
Lucius Mushwana, 30, works full-time at Johannesburg’s busy produce market and is studying to complete a bachelor’s degree in business. The rest of his time is devoted to working with youth in his sprawling, crime-ridden community, devising activities to keep them engaged and out of trouble.
An ordinary life in South Africa?? Not exactly.
Eight years ago, Lucius was in prison, serving an 18-year sentence for armed robbery. Dabbling in drugs and crime since the age of 9, Lucius was just one more troubled black youth growing up in the “new” South Africa, where millions are robbed of an ordinary life due to parental deaths from AIDS, pervasive violent crime, and dysfunctional family life.
Lucius’ prospects took a sudden turn for the better in 2002, when a local South African NGO, Khulisa, began offering offenders the opportunity to become peer educators for substance abuse, which is rife in South African prisons. Lucius was selected to participate in the very first programme…and nothing has been the same since.
“Through the skills I acquired, I came up with good initiatives/projects inside the prison and I felt the need to share what I have learnt with other offenders. Through all that, I managed to change my life to the better and influenced the others to do the same.
We started a project called CASAP (Crime and Substance Abuse Prevention) and we managed to see over 500 school kids -- I still get messages of gratitude from some of the kids. I saw this as my way of making amends to people that I have harmed/wronged and could not directly go to them and say sorry.“
The more than 20 programmes developed by Khulisa for use in South Africa’s prisons, schools and high-risk communities are geared precisely to awaken such feelings and responses. They encourage offenders to assume responsibility for their actions, leading to an acknowledgement of the harm done and a desire to make amends – either directly with crime victims or indirectly, through community service. The philosophy of restorative justice underpins all Khulisa’s programmes.
But the changes in Lucius’ life did not stop there. In 2003 Khulisa brought a Leaders Quest delegation to Johannesburg Medium C Maximum Security Prison for Juveniles. Lucius remembers their visit well:
“Prison is a very lonely place and any diversion is a welcome respite. When it is people who have obviously got a genuine interest in doing something for the prisoners, then it is even more special. It gives one so much hope just to think that there are people out there who care about them.”
Leaders Quest and Khulisa maintained constant contact in the ensuing years with a keen interest always being shown in the development of the individuals who participated in that very first delegation.
The interest shown by an outside group such as Leaders Quest served as a strong motivation to continue the work, Lucius recalls. He stayed in touch with Lindsay Levin who led the original delegation.
Lindsay Levin, CEO of Leaders Quest, forwarded to the group a number of recently published motivational books which were a great source of inspiration to the participants.
In the interim Khulisa and Leaders Quest forged a strong relationship with great opportunities being created by further Quests for in-prison and community-based opportunities for personal and skills development and re-entry possibilities for offenders.
In 2007, Lucius’ good work in the prison earned him an early 6-year release. As an adult with a new mind-set, Lucius never considered returning to crime, but after his release, felt lost:
“While in prison and engaging in positive and constructive programmes, I always dreamed and wished to work towards setting goals, planning my life and the way I want to live it post-release. After I was released I realized that the outside world was a challenge: competition, fate, distractions and despair. I needed to talk to someone who could understand my perception towards life and how I could best adapt and create my way of life without fear, false expectations and without getting into other people’s paths.”
Upon his release Lucius turned to Khulisa, where with support from staff, he founded and ran a youth development organisation in Soweto.
“The group is aimed at reaching thousands of young people at risk of drugs and crime that springs from boredom, unemployment and poverty. I worked with two other ex-offenders to offer dance, poetry, music and drama classes for vulnerable young people. We also offered HIV/AIDS information, life skills and motivational talks to schools and churches.”
During a further Leaders Quest hosted by Lucius and a group of ex-offenders Lindsay identified Lucius as an ideal candidate for consideration of support by the Leaders Quest Foundation. This led to a grant being agreed on for his community work, as well as the amount he needed to pay his tuition at the University of South Africa.
The grant “helped us so much, and we were really able to make a big difference in young people’s lives by establishing school holiday programmes, more recreational activities and we were able to purchase a laptop for administration purposes. This particular donation was as a result of the philanthropy of Mr Paul Fletcher, who I would personally like to thank most sincerely for having the faith in me and what I would be able to do with the money granted to us. I would like to say that his faith and trust was an inspiration that kept me going.”
In early 2009 Khulisa involved Lucius in the Gateway Project, which was implemented jointly with the City of Jo’burg. The Gateway project created opportunities for ex-offenders to shadow city employees and thus become eligible for a job, after undergoing personal development and work-readiness training from Khulisa. This process led to Lucius’ current full-time employment at the City Produce Market – no small feat for an ex-offender in an economy with so much employment.
Lucius strongly believes that the support he received from Leaders Quest and Khulisa has helped him to become a role model in his community.
“I am often consulted to assist in disputes and people come to me to seek advice and guidance. I have managed to positively influence a lot of young people to stay out of crime and drugs and general youth delinquencies. I hope that they see me as being the kind of person that they would emulate.
In all my daily dealings, I try to take the high road and guide people to the best of my ability. I have done this specifically since gaining better communication skills and by using my ‘leading by example’ skills. I understand the need for integrity, and how I need to conduct myself in this regard.”
In the future, Lucius said he looks forward to establishing more youth centres to help more children learn and live by positive social values. At the personal level, he wants to continue his studies, have a family and be a good parent, own a home and be accepted and respected by society.
While many prisoners share these dreams, Lucius is one of the lucky few. With support when he most needed it, he is already on the road to fulfilling them.
Richard Ngoma Profile
My name is Richard Ngoma and I am currently serving an 18 year sentence. I have already spent 9 years of my sentence and I will be released on the 11th November 2009. I am 26 years old and I was sentenced at the age of 17. My parents passed away when I was still very young and my grandmother became my guardian.
I went inside the prison a disappointed and very bitter young boy,. I did self development programmes such as anger management, Stress management, life skills and Khulisa’s My Path programme. These programmes helped me a lot during my incarceration and helped me to take full responsibility plus it helped me prepare myself for a better future. The biggest part was that it helped me to deal with my emotions and more importantly it provided me with important coping skills.
Empowering and equipping myself with helpful information has always being in my mind. In 2004 I matriculated in prison and then applied for a bursary from Khulisa. Fortunately Lesley Ann managed to assist me and as a result I am studying for a BCom majoring in Law through UNISA.
Over the past years I have been extensively involved with Khulisa in the delivery of Peer Drug education programmes in different Correctional centers. I have also delivered HIV/AIDS awareness programmes and estimate that over the years I have reached in excess of 2 000 inmates. I have also been involved with C.A.S.A.P which addresses substance abuse and criminal behaviour. This programme is run in conjunction with the SAPS and invites school children into the Correctional Centers and through this I have reached approximately 5 000 children.
Through the help of Khulisa in 2005 I made an effort to apologize to the family of my victim, unfortunately this was unsuccessful but this has not deterred me from playing an active role in the restorative justice programme introduced by Khulisa in JHB Medium C prison.
In conclusion I have through the years displayed incredible tenacity, courage and determination. I am an extremely capable individual in whom Khulisa has placed the utmost trust in the delivery of Peer Education programmes to thousands of inmates and community members over the years. I recently received a letter of employment from Khulisa and my vision is to ensure that I uphold the societal values and morals that are upheld in my community and to combat crime and eradicate poverty ultimately.
Sabelo James Mngomezulu
Personal profile
- Date of Birth: 17 February 1976
- Marital Status: Single
- Languages: isiZulu, isiSwati, xhosa, Sotho English and Portuguese
Academic qualifications
- Attended Primary school at Indzevane (Swaziland) and High school at Zombizwe High and Ingwavuma High School (South Africa)
- Sat for matriculation examination at Ingwavuma high school, KZN (2000)
- Undertook first year Dentistry degree with the university of Witwatersrand Johannesburg (2003 – 2007) ( did not complete)
Career/work experience/other activities
- Worked for Mosvold Hospital (KZN) during University breaks as a trainee Dentist
- Joined Khulisa Crime prevention Initiative ( October 2008)
- Underwent a personal development programme with Khulisa (2008)
- I was trained as a Master trainer for various Khulisa programmes (2009) these include (Silence The Violence, Character Matters, Diversion, Community Crime Prevention, Drug Smart, Connect Programme and HIV/AIDS)
- I obtained a facilitation Skills certificate from BizzCom (2010)
- I Facilitated Silence The Violence Programme in the UK, North West Province, Gauteng (Gateway Project),
- I facilitated Public Speaking, Facilitation Skills and Conflict resolution for the Parliamentary Millennium Programme (PMP)
- I facilitated HIV/AIDS programme in North west, Mpumalanga, and Eastern Cape
- I coordinated the Gateway project (2009)
- I was appointed a team Leader for National Programmes (2010)
- I was appointed Team leader Reinvent innovations (2010)
- Facilitated character matters programme for (Capacity Growth)
- Co-facilitated the Connect programme for (CSIR) staff members (2010)
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