Decolonisation & DTM

We live in an era of civilisational destruction — of cities consuming nature. The collapse of the Global South is also the collapse of Mother Earth. We live a spiritual crisis, a consciousness crisis. Global leadership collapses. And even as decay happens, new shots arise. New plants are growing. At the intersection of technology and regeneration, using the colonisers’ language and platforms to decolonise the future.

POSSIBLE FUTURE’s first dialogues were held at TEDxGRC on 17th October 2020, with three panels: The Story of the Global South, Decolonisation & DTM, and Pluriversality & Regeneration.

Nolita Mvunelo:

Hello to everyone tuning in. My name is Nolita Thina Mvunelo. I’m a 22-year-old Xhosa woman. My clan names, for those to whom this information is relevant, are ndingu Marhadebe, Umthimkhulu, Ubhungane, Ungelengele, Undleb ntle zombili. I’m a chemical engineering student from the University of Cape Town in South Africa. My previous work was primarily as a chairperson of a social enterprise incubator on our campus.

And I’ve also been working with various organizations, helping young people, at least younger than myself, learn entrepreneurial skills and teaching them entrepreneurial thought, using design thinking principles. And…