ABOUT US
Who we are
We are the Zabalaza Pathways Institute
We walk with social justice movements to win transformative change.
We are a strategic hub partnering with grassroots movements. We facilitate the building of a conducive eco-system to enable stronger, effective and impactful social justice movements. We catalyze and hold spaces for movements to critically reflect, build strategies, work out ways to make impact, define the bigger we, connect immediate struggles with the longer-term, enable building solidarity, education, training and political development.
We believe that grassroots self-agency, organized popular power, and strategically effective movements are central to winning transformative social justice.
Vision
We envisage and work to achieve just, loving societies without poverty based on zero carbon economies… wherein ordinary people are self-organized, with real social weight, voice and power… and are in democratic, emancipatory and sustainable control of their livelihoods, development the resources required for life.
The mass of ordinary people have the ability to achieve universal well-being through the democratic and joint control of all ecological, social, economic, political, and cultural aspects of their lives.
Location
The Institute undertakes its primary work in South Africa whilst also collaborating and partnering with like-minded organisations in the region.
Beyond Southern Africa, the Institute is building relationships and partnerships with like-minded mass movements and strategic organisations in Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Tunisia, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, India and the United States of America.
Pathways is one of very few strategic organisations to be located in, and operating from the impoverished, underdeveloped and poorly governed Eastern Cape Province, while its work reaches across South Africa, and to other parts of the world.
Our Board
- Mazibuko Jara – Executive Director (man);
- Gunnett Kaaf – Fiscal Policy Analyst at the Free State Provincial Treasury (man);
- Itumeleng Motlhabane – Provincial Organiser of the Equal Education Campaign in the Eastern Cape (woman);
- Ayanda Kota – Spokesperson of the Unemployed People’s Movement (man);
- Dr. Ayanda Madyibi – youth activist in the 1980s, ICT expert and manager in the Eastern Cape Socio-Economic Consultative Council (man);
- Siphokazi Magadla – Professor and Head of the Department of Politics and International Studies at Rhodes University (woman); and
- Mzikazi Nkata – Local Secretary of the South African Federation of Trade Unions in Gqeberha, and state forensic pathologist in Gqeberha (woman)
