Speeches
Balancing Family and Business in a Demanding Modern Society
A Call to Enlightened Leadership with the Family as Foundation An Address to the Night of the Kings Dinner, Mbombela By Dr Reuel J Khoza I 28 June 2025 Introduction: The Duel of Two Thrones In the ceaseless pursuit of success, many find themselves torn between two equally demanding realms—the boardroom and the home. The…
Read MoreFamily And Business With Focus on Generational Sustainability
An Address to the Night of the Kings Dinner, Mbombela By Dr Reuel J Khoza I 28 June 2025 Generational sustainability in family businesses hinges on a delicate interplay of legacy, leadership, and long-term vision. It is based on or presupposes genuine love between the spouses, quintessential harmony in the family and a shared sense…
Read MoreContemporary Challenges to Responsible, Accountable Fatherhood – Fathers Day Event (Chartwell Lodge)
By Dr Reuel J. Khoza I 15 June 2025 The Age of Accountable Fatherhood: A Call to Stewardship and Leadership Honoured guests, esteemed colleagues, and fathers of conviction, Fatherhood is not a mere title—it is a sacred covenant, a solemn pledge to shape lives, to mold character, to build legacies that endure beyond our fleeting…
Read MoreHow to Use Entrepreneurship to Alleviate Poverty and Joblessness in our Society and Amongst the Youth of South Africa
In Honour of the 10th Tsietsi Mashinini Memorial Lecture by Dr Reuel J. Khoza I 14 June 2025 Entrepreneurship is one of those subjects that everyone in business talks about. Everyone knows it is important for both small and large firms to be innovative with products, agile in response to market opportunities, and supportive of…
Read MoreUnleashing the Power of Youth Leadership and Entrepreneurship – Tsietsi Mashinini Tribute
A tribute by Dr Reuel J. Khoza I 14 June 2025 Introduction Distinguished guests, esteemed colleagues, and the vibrant youth before us – greetings. We convene today not merely to commemorate, but to reflect, rekindle, and reimagine the spirit of leadership embodied by Tsietsi Mashinini. His legacy is not confined to history books; it pulsates…
Read MoreValedictory Accolades to Assupol
By Dr Reuel J. Khoza I 27 September 2024 By way of introduction I would like to cite three African idiomatic expressions, which are as popular as they are profound: “Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu” is Nguni for “a person finds genuine human expression by humanely and caringly relating to other people” or, “I am because you…
Read MoreEulogy For Professor Muxe Gessler Nkondo
By Dr Reuel J. Khoza I 23 August 2024 Protocol observed… “One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was, one cannot judge life until death.” Charles de Gaulle. “There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety, being wise he is free from perplexity;…
Read MoreFarewell to Prof Dean Rossouw on Behalf of the Ethics Institute Board of Directors
by Dr RJ Khoza – 25 April 2024 Colleagues have already commendably bid farewell to our esteemed colleague and TEI CEO of more than a decade’s standing. As I come in at the tail-end of this wonderful valedictory party, mine is to echo and accentuate our deep sense of gratitude to Prof Deon Rossouw. Our…
Read MoreA Purposeful Life – Lapalala Wilderness School Opening Address
by Dr RJ Khoza – 26 November 2022 Thank you for inviting me to this Year End Function of Lapalala Wilderness School which also celebrates your move to the new premises. May I start by paying homage to those who cooperate to make this wonderful project work: Chairman Dr John Hanks for championing…
Read MoreAll Africa Business Leadership Awards – Acceptance Speech
AABLA (All Africa Business Leadership Awards) in partner with CNBC Acceptance Speech: Lifetime Achievement Award By Dr Reuel J. Khoza I 4 June 2022 A Brief Reflection on Africa’s Leadership Challenge In order to clearly conceptualise Africa’s contemporary Leadership Challenge it behoves us to acknowledge unequivocally that Africa has a date with destiny. Stemming from…
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