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Ntate Isaac Mpho Mogotsi
Founder & Executive Chairman
Centre for Economic Diplomacy in Africa (CEDIA)
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VISION OF CENTRE OF ECONOMIC DIPLOMACY IN AFRICA
Contribute to the promotion of common understanding, solidarity, mutual support, synergies, and win-win solutions amongst the business, diplomats and professional organizations in Africa for the stability, prosperity and development of the whole continent. This will be achieved through research, advisory services, policy support, academic research and public intellectual debates amongst business, diplomats and professional organisations.
MISSION OF CENTRE OF ECONOMIC DIPLOMACY IN AFRICA
To provide a conducive environment and productive public platform to business, diplomats, and professional organisations in Africa to network, collaborate, interact and cooperate on an ongoing and continuous basis so as to provide innovative solutions to Africa's myriad challenges. This will be done by marshalling the triangular synergies amongst business, diplomats, and professional organisations.
CEDIA SCHOOL OF ECONOMIC DIPLOMACY IN AFRICA
The ultimate aim and goal of CEDIA is the establishment and operation, on a long-term basis, of a fully accredited and fully fledged CEDIA School of Economic Diplomacy in Africa, offering teaching, academic tuition, research and analysis facilities, reading and computer center, and seminars/conferencing facilities.
Mr. Isaac Mpho Mogotsi is a former ANC exile, freedom fighter, Senior South African diplomat, Founder and Executive Chairman of Centre for Economic Diplomacy in Africa (CEDIA), serving also as the Editor-in-Chief of CEDIA African Times. He has written articles which have been published by Politicsweb online magazine, Pretoria News, The Star, Mail & Guardian and other publications. His novel, The Alexandra Tales, published in 1993, won the CNA Award for Fiction in 1996.
He completed his university education at Moscow-based Patrice Lumumba People’s Friendship University (then USSR), as well as at University of Witwatersrand (Wits university) in Johannesburg, South Africa. He served in Geneva and New York as a South African diplomat. He is a former History Teacher at the exiled ANC’s Morogoro, Tanzania-based Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College (SOMAFCO) and was a part-time Lecturer in Russian Language Studies at Wits University. He is currently a businessman with 15 years in the private sector. His area of strength in business is local community business development. He also previously did political analysis for Johannesburg-based eNCA TV station.
He speaks many indigenous South African black languages, Russian, Swahili, English, Afrikaans and some average French.
He lived for two years in Morogoro, Tanzania, one year in Nairobi, Kenya, eight years in Moscow, the Soviet Russian Federation, three years in New York, N.Y, USA, and two years in Geneva, Switzerland, where his main diplomatic responsibility was South Africa’s participation in the Davos-based World Economic Forum (WEF).
As a senior diplomat he was responsible as a Director for South Africa’s diplomatic relations with the Near Middle East, including with Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. As a Chief Director he was responsible for South Africa’s diplomatic relations with East and Central Asia (including with the People’s Republic of China, the breakaway and renegade Taiwan, Japan, South and North Koreas and the former Central Asian Republics of the then Soviet Union (such as Khazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Azarbajan, Kirgystan), several of which he visited via Turkey.
He has extensively traveled the world and has been to over 60 countries in the rest of Africa and beyond.
He was born on 2 November 1962 in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg. He grew up in Rabokala village near the town of Brits in the then Western Transvaal (currently the North West province of South Africa), where he attended primary school. He then attended secondary school in the village of Hebron near Rabokala, until he left for exile in 1980.
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CEDIA offers its services for a fee in terms of its Project Goal, to and collaborates with:
Government Departments (National, Provincial and Local)
Private Sector Companies
NGO's
Learning and Academic Institutions
Traditional and Customary Institutions
Embassies and International Organisations
CEDIA also assists in facilitating the following:
Seminars
Conferencing
Bosberaad
Team Building Exercises and
Leadership Strategy Sessions
Prepares Research and Analysis Papers per request
CEDIA assists in publishing:
Memoirs
Autobiographies
Biographies
Poetry
Other literature
CEDIA areas of expertise:
Economic Diplomacy in Africa
African Political and Transitional Studies
African Security and Governance Studies
African Civil Society Organisations and State Power
The Impact of African Non-State Actors on Foreign Policy of African States
African Traditional and Customary Authority and Modern National States
Africa's Place in the World
The Role of African States in International Organisations e.g. UN, IMF, AU, World Bank, WTO, G20, and BRICS
The OAU and AU: History and the Present
The Role and Influence of Externalities on Africa
Leadership and Transformation
Leadership and changing Societies
Public Policy and Public Participation
Capacity Building for and Mobilisation of Traditional Societies and Customary Practices for Successful, Win-Win Outcomes
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ABOUT CEDIA
Centre for Economic Diplomacy in Africa (CEDIA) is an independant, non-government, non-partisan think tank which undertakes consultancy, advisory services, policy support and academic enquiry in the following:
By undertaking intensive research, academic enquiry, public speaking engagements, lectures, roadshows, group discussions, as well as organizing and or attending workshops, seminars, conferences, and intra think tank meetings relates to this theme.
CEDIA is a Level 1 BBBEE Compliant Entity