{"id":7166,"date":"2022-07-05T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T10:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/?p=7166"},"modified":"2022-07-15T10:04:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T10:04:09","slug":"ja-south-africa-alumni-gather-for-first-ever-town-hall-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/ja-south-africa-alumni-gather-for-first-ever-town-hall-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"JA South Africa Alumni Gather for First Ever Town Hall Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On June 28, JA South Africa held a virtual town hall meeting under the theme, \u201cEmerging Leaders\u201d to foster network growth and connect JA South Africa alumni to the global JA Alumni community. The\u00a0emerging\u00a0leader\u00a0theme\u00a0speaks to alumni who have gone through JA Programs and are changing the course of their destinies, be it in the corporate space as professionals or\u00a0leaders\u00a0of industry who have taken up entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"Emerging Leaders Townhall\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ps22NluDwCo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At the Townhall, the alumni were introduced to Gather, a platform designed by JA Worldwide which brings together a vast and powerful cohort of young people around the world who share similar experiences of having completed JA\u2019s enriching programs. By Plugging into the greater Gather community of like-minded individuals around the globe, the alumni have access to global opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The keynote speaker at the event was Miles&nbsp;Kubheka, a JA South Africa alumnus, who is an entrepreneur and author, the poster child for the audacity of hope. Mr. Kubheka founded Wakanda which aims to reduce hunger through outlets like Gcwalisa&nbsp;dispensers which allow customers to purchase food and homecare products&nbsp;at low costs. In his address, he encouraged the alumni community to plug into the global network and seize the opportunities it has to offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 28, JA South Africa held a virtual town hall meeting under the theme, \u201cEmerging Leaders\u201d to foster network growth and connect JA South Africa alumni to the global JA Alumni community. The\u00a0emerging\u00a0leader\u00a0theme\u00a0speaks to alumni who have gone through JA Programs and are changing the course of their destinies, be it in the corporate &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/ja-south-africa-alumni-gather-for-first-ever-town-hall-meeting\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">JA South Africa Alumni Gather for First Ever Town Hall Meeting<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":{"featured_alumni_video":"","year":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG-20220715-WA0000.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7168,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7166\/revisions\/7168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.ja-africa.org\/backend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}