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Mpho Putu" s bio

  Mpho is regional development manager for FoodBank South Africa (FBSA) in the north region. His role is to help grow the organisation’s footprint and to manage stakeholder relationships, including relationships with FBSA’s agencies.


Mpho is the former director of Boundary Crossing, a non-profit organisation that promotes and supports citizen leadership.

Community development is Mpho’s passion. He worked for the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa) for almost nine years, first as a training coordinator for Idasa’s Community Policing Unit, then as the manager of Idasa’s Community Participation Unit, and later as manager of the Citizen Leadership Unit. He has also worked as a training and development manager for The Aids Consortium, a non-profit human rights organisation committed to openness and non-discrimination of people living with HIV/Aids.

His community work includes serving as chairperson of the Labour Forum for the South African Police Service and as a board member of the SA Reflect Network. Mpho is the founder and former director of Emthonjeni Fountains of Life Aids Project.

Mpho’s work has taken him abroad, as an international fellow of the Kettering Foundation in Dayton, Ohio; as a training and development advisor seconded to the European Union; and as an elections monitor in Zimbabwe and Lesotho. Mpho has also facilitated citizen leadership workshops in Angola, Zimbabwe and Swaziland and facilitated deliberative forums in the USA, Russia and Botswana.

A former high school teacher, Mpho’s also an avid learner. He has a diploma in education, a Bachelor of Arts (Education), a Bachelor of Education (Educational Management), a diploma in human resources management, a diploma in municipal governance and a Masters in public management and development.

Cell Number: 084 836 0966

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