If You've ever perused my website www.wrightnow.biz

then you know my brand ID "Community Service is the Cornerstone of Wright Enterprises" based on my conviction that "community service is the hallmark of good business." That's goes internationally as well.  Amid the wonderful business opportunities of the November CA Trade Mission in South Africa including being on the Essence Festival Durban dias; being interviewed by masterful news anchor Gugu Cele of CNBC Africa, establishing ties with Johannesburg-based Morehouse grad Garrett Webster of Team BTL and Durban based Brenda Dunn of Be Done Communications;  meeting U.S & South Africa based businessman Stephen Hightower of Hightower Petroleum Company; meeting officials of the Durban Chamber of Commerce; meeting Durban Chamber of Commerce officials and working with the team of Durban Mayor Her Worship Cllr Zandile Gumede's Governance & International Relations Department,  community service came to the forefront of great opportunities.

It was a love letter than caused me to fall in love with the work of Mazisi and Mathabo Kunene.  I looked upon the wall of the Kunene foundation as Vee Governor of Governor & Associates and Eric Apelgren Head of Durban's Governance & International Relations Department arranged the tour for LA-based filmmaker Damon Jamal (See his short of Kaepernick) and me.  It was that love letter; that interchange between then South African exiled UCLA Professor Mazisi Kunene to his partner in the struggle against apartheid, the mother of his children and the love of his life that opened my heart to see what else this man had to say.  And it was a lot, as this now deceased first poet laureate of President Nelson Mandela, made it his life's work to preserve the Zulu language in literature.  I stood mesmerized feeling like Julie Harris' character "Frankie" in Member of the Wedding, in love with love.   My visit had just scratched the surface of the great writer's work. 
 

I met Ms. Dunn at the Essence Festival Durban Women's empowerment breakfast and it was an idea a minute every time Mrs. Dunn opened her mouth, possibility after possibility.  For a woman who is building the Malibongwe Service Center for seniors and their families, one cinder block at a time, making something out of nothing is in her DNA.
 

What could these zippers be?

As Mrs. Dunn talked about the great arts and crafts of the seniors of the Malibongwe Service Center, it sounded like a great match to create a trade mission project with the San Francisco Chapter of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women's "Bridging the Generations" Workforce Development and Employment Program that has as one of its partners, The I.T. Bookman Community Center in San Francisco.

 

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Jackie Wright, Wright Enterprises, delegate to the historic November CA Trade Mission to Durban South Africa gets Pointers from fellow seniors.

 
The California Trade Mission 2016 hosted by the eThekwini Municipality/Durban was sponsored by:
   

   

Article by Tanya Waterworth of the "Independent on Saturday."