Daniel Mpilo Richards - We All Have the Capacity for Change from Peace Talks on Vimeo.
Event: Oxford Peace Talks
Location: The Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Mansfield College
Date: 16/05/2019
“I could have been one of these kids. I could have been this man in another life. That feeling of sadness is overpowered by the sense of responsibility to tell his story but how? How do we capture the emotion of hope in a context where the bullet is more powerful than a pen? So, I and one of my friends co-wrote and performed a piece of theatre which gave voice to the dialogue between a gang leader and a psychologist based on a true story. No matter who you are, what you have done, we all have the capacity for change.” Award winning South African actor who currently serves as the Creative Director for the Ruben Richards Foundation, Daniel Mpilo Richards, talks about his dedication to impact the lives of 1 million of Cape Flats residents with the theater play. His quote of “No matter who you are, what you have done, we all have the capacity for change” is giving us hope for change. Oxford Peace Talks 2019. Recorded at the The Bonavero
Institute of Human Rights in Mansfield College on May 16, 2019.
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Daniel Mpilo Richards is a versatile and award winning South African actor. He graduated from UCT in 2013 with a BA Honours Degree in Theatre and Performance, and has performed in England, USA, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Rwanda, Botswana, Zimbabwe and all across South Africa. He is currently completing his Masters Degree in Film and Television Producing in London at the Met Film School having received the prestigious Chevening Scholarship. Daniel serves as the creative director for the Ruben Richards Foundation – a non-profit organization that aims to heal the hearts, minds and souls of traumatized communities through various programs in the areas of Therapy, Job Creation, Conflict Mediation and Art Therapy. He is the recipient of various awards including the Naledi Theatre Award for Best Breakthrough Artist of 2016 and most recently the CEO Artist of the Year Award at the Baxter Theatre 2017. Other performance highlights include playing Will Shakespeare in the Fugard Theatre’s Shakespeare In Love, playing a lead role in West Side Story (Bernardo) and doing comedy alongside legendary comedians: Marc Lottering, Alan Committie and Rob Van Vuuren at the Leicester Square Theatre on the West End, UK for London’s Cape Town Festival.
Oxford Peace Talks 2019
Language: English
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Event: Oxford Peace Talks
Ngoni Mugwisi
Language: English
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Event: Oxford Peace Talks
Ngoni Mugwisi played the mbira, a soothing lamellophone traditional to Zimbabwe that has charmed audiences for almost a thousand years.
Oxford Peace Talks 2019. Recorded at the The Bonavero Institute of Human Rights in Mansfield College on May 16, 2019.
Qhayiya Mudau
Language: English
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Event: Oxford Peace Talks
“Access to physiotherapy services, I believe, has a such a crucial role in building and rebuilding the lives of individuals after disease or disaster. Access to physiotherapy services provides individuals with the opportunity to answer the question of ‘what happens now, after disease and conflicts have been resolved?’ What happens now? Rehabilitation services are about rebuilding.”
Physiotherapist and Rhodes Scholar, Qhayiya Mudau, talks about being a physiotherapist who rebuilds the lives of individuals. Qhayiya reminds us that the power of injured individuals reintegrating into society is the way of rebuilding peace.
Oxford Peace Talks 2019. Recorded at the The Bonavero Institute of Human Rights in Mansfield College on May 16, 2019.
Hajer Sharief
Language: English
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Event: Oxford Peace Talks
“What is missing? The experience and perspective of the ordinary citizens who lived these wars on a daily basis; the people who are resilient; and the people who know how to bring on peace. People are not born violent; people are born into violence. People from all walks of lives in these war zones has a voice and has opinion to deliver to them.”
Founder of Libyan organization “Together We Build it”, Young Leader from Kofi Annan Foundation’s Extremely Together Initiative, Hajer Sharief, invites to her personal stories of volunteering in a hospital and working as a founder of “Together We Build It.” She empathizes the role of ordinary people in the conflict zones in that we need to hear their voices and opinions.
Oxford Peace Talks 2019. Recorded at the The Bonavero Institute of Human Rights in Mansfield College on May 16, 2019.