Welcome Witbooi - Director of Brightspark Foundation

from This Way Up South Africa · host Terry Shakinovsky & Babette Gallard

In this episode, we speak with Welcome Witbooi, a former Cape Flats gang leader who transformed his life to found the BrightSpark Foundation SA - an organisation that seeks to help and protect young people facing the challenges he did. Welcome shares his journey from prison to activism, his meeting with the family of the man he killed, and the profundity of true redemptive justice.

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