2025 IofC Annual Lecture and Trustbuilding Awards

Initiatives of Change South Africa and IofC International are excited to host the 2025 Annual Lecture and Trustbuilding Awards ceremony on 12 November at 12:00pm UTC / GMT at the University of South Africa, in Pretoria, under the theme

This third edition of the event will include

• Inspiring contributions from distinguished guests as part of the IofC Annual Lecture.
• Celebration of three Trustbuilding Award winners
• Launch of a National Campaign and a sustained movement focused on family and community healing though trustbuilding, forgiveness, and reconciliation by IofC South Africa.

Prof Sibusiso Vil-Nkomo

Short Bio

Professor Vil-Nkomo was Public Service Commissioner under President Nelson Mandela. He is a member of the Academy of Science in South Africa and the South African Association of Public Management and Administration which has established the Annual Prof Sibusiso Vil-Nkomo Lecture.

He is Chairperson of South Africa's Agricultural Research Council (ARC), Deputy Chairperson of the Water Research Commission (WRC), and Board Member of Subtropico Pty, Ltd, and Chairperson of the Board of Governors of the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA).

From 2011-2012 he was a J William Fulbright Research Scholar in the Department of Economics at Fordham University in the US as well as a Fellow of the Fordham School of Business Consortium in New York City. He is a former member of the Executive of the University of Pretoria and Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences.

Prof Vil-Nkomo is a member of the Board of Advisors for the School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Delaware in the US, is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University and serves on the Editorial Board of the Servant Leadership Journal Published at Gonzaga University.

Join us in-person or via livestream and discover more about the important trustbuilding work carried out by outstanding individuals and organizations from around the world and in the heart of South-African communities.

Save the date and register today to get updates about the event programme and livestream.

We can’t wait to welcome you at our highlight event of the year and share more information in the coming months! Stay tuned!

Event Organizing Team

Event Partners

We are looking forward to a successful partnership and collaboration with 
the Fetzer Institute, Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace, World Peace Forum, Building Bridges for Peace and IofC South Africa.