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Below CEDIA Founder & Executive Chairman Mr. Isaac Mpho Mogotsi attending the Brazil, Russia, India, China & South Africa (BRICS) Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa on 22 -24 August 2023.

Below the Founder & Chairman of CEDIA kneeling in front of the South African icon and first democratic president Nelson Mandela in a group photo when Nelson Mandela was visiting Geneva, Switzerland to address the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in 1998. At the time CEDIA Founder & Chairman was a South African diplomat at the United Nations (UN) in Geneva.

Below CEDIA Founder & Chairman visiting the great Sphynx of Giza, Cairo, Egypt, 2004.

Below CEDIA Founder & Chairman in a group photo during a solidarity visit to former Palestinian Authority (PA) President Yasser Arafat who was being incarcerated by Israeli occupation in his Ramallah, Palestine presidential compound in 2003.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN (IN A LIGHT BLUE AND WHITE COLLARED SHIRT) IN A HIGH-LEVEL AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS (ANC) DIPLOMATIC DELEGATION LED BY THE LATE SOUTH AFRICAN DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER AZIZ PAHAD TO MEET WITH THE THEN ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER SIMON PERES IN TEL AVIVI, ISRAEL DURING THE MEETING OF THE SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL HELD IN BOTH RAMALLAH, PALESTINE AND TEL AVIV, ISRAEL IN 2004.

Below CEDIA Founder & Chairman, a former South African diplomat in consultation with other South African delegates during the Non Aligned Movement (NAM) Ministerial Meeting in Bandung, Indonesia in 1995.

Below CEDIA Founder & Chairman in the company of Algerian friends and a couple during a visit to London, UK in 2002, with Big Ben in the background.

Below CEDIA Founder & Chairman with a fellow former South African diplomat on the Alps, close to Geneva, Switzerland, 1996.

Below CEDIA Founder & Chairman visiting London Eye, London, UK in 2002.

Below CEDIA Founder & Chairman, then a South African diplomat, in the company of the United Nations Trade & Development Conference (UNCTAD) officials from Ethiopia and Iraq during a visit to snow-capped mountains outside Geneva, Switzerland in 1996

Below CEDIA Founder & Chairman meeting with the late Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Al Shabbah in Kuwait City, Kuwait, 2002.

Below CEDIA Founder & Chairman with his MA (History) dissertation leader Professor Panamarenko and his late Lesotho fiancee Betty Tau at Moscow's Patrice Lumumba People's Friendship University after his graduation in 1987.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDERE & CHAIRMAN IN A HEATED INTELLECTUAL JOSTLE WITH FELLOW SOUTH AFRICAN WRITERS IN A PARIS APARTMENT DURING A WRITERS' WORKSHOP IN 1995 SPONSORED BY THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT FOLLOWING SOUTH AFRICA'S FIRST DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS IN 1994

Below CEDIA Founder & Chairman in the company of other South African diplomats during a visit to the People's Republic of China's Hong Kong in 2005.

Below CEDIA Founder & Chairman visiting the great Pyramids of Giza in Cairo, Egypt in 2004.

Below CEDIA Founder & Chairman visiting outside the Buckingham Palace in London, UK in 2002.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN IN LONDON'S HYDE PARL, 2004.

Below CEDIA Founder & Chairman with fellow exiles belonging to the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa on the way to play tennis at Moscow's Patrice Lumumba People's Friendship University in 1986

Below CEDIA Founder & Chairman all smiles during a breakfast planning session with the late South African Foreign Minister Alfred Nzo, Ambassador Mongalo and the former Minister's Personal Assistant (PA) at Hilton Hotel in Addis Abbas, Ethiopia during the Organisation of Africa (OAU) Ministerial Meeting in 1996.

Below CEDIA Founder & Chairman taking a stroll in 1996 with the help of a walking stick (after injuring himself playing tennis) in a small park in Lower Manhattan with the New York Twin Towers in the background.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN, STANDING ON A RAIL, ATTENDED A JOHNY CLEGG & SIPHO MCHUNU'S JULUKA MUSICAL CONCERT IN NEW YORK'S CENTRAL PARK #SUMMERSTAGE IN 1996

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN WITH A SOUTH AFRICAN DIPLOMATIC COLLEAGUE STANDING IN FRONT OF THE EGYPTIAN MUSEUM OF ANTIQUITY IN CAIRO, 2004.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN'S PATERNAL GRANDMOTHER LOUISAH MACHERE MOGOTSI, THE LIFEFORCE AND INSPIRATION BEHIND CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN'S CREATIVE JUICES.

BELOW IS A PICTURE CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN TOOK OF HIS DAUGHTER TEBOGO AND HIS LATE STEP MOTHER AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF NEW YORK'S TWIN TOWERS IN 1997.

BELOW ARE FOUR PICTURES WHICH CAPTURED SOME OF THE SIGHTS AND MOMENTS OF THE WEDDING OF CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN TO HIS LATE WIFE QUEEN BATSEBA MOGOTSI (RIP) IN 1995.

Below CEDIA Founder & Chairman with his now late wife Queen Batseba Mogotsi (RIP) on the steps of Capital Hill, Washington, 1996.

Below CEDIA Founder & Chairman carrying his daghter now Dr Tebogo Mogotsi on his arms on the steps of Capital Hill, Washington, 1995.

BELOW ARE THREE PHOTOS OF CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN'S DAUGHTER AND FIRST BORN TEBOGO MAGDELINE MOGOTSI GRADUATING AS A MEDICAL DOCTOR FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND (WITS UNIVERSITY) IN JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, WHICH IS CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN'S ALMA MATER, MAKING IT TWO GENERATIONS OF MOGOTSI OF THE SAME FAMILY GRADUATING CONSECUTIVELY FROM THE SELF-SAME WITS UNIVERSITY.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN'S SON & LAST BORN LETHABO PHILIP MOGOTSI AT HIS UNIVERSITY OF PRETOIA (UP) GRADUATION CEREMONY WTH BCOM (FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SCIENCES).

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN ATENDING THE GRADUATION CEREMONY OF HIS SON AND LAST BORN LETHABO PHILIP MOGOTSI FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA WITH BCOM (FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SCIENCES).

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN WITH FORMER SOUTH AFRICAN AMBASSADOR TO ETHIOPIA, THE SUDAN AND THE ORGANISATION OF AFRICAN UNITY (OAU) AMBASSADOR NEXT TO A DEDICATION TO THE FORMER ETHIOPIA EMPEROR AND CO-FOUNDER OF THE OAU HIS MAJESTY EMPEROR HAIL SELASSIE, 1996.

Below CEDIA Founder & Chairman with the former Premier of South Africa's Gauteng province Tokyo Sexwale and former Presidential Advisor to two South African presidents Dr Khulu Mbatha in Manhattan, New York in 1995.

Below CEDIA Founder & Chairman with former Ambassador of South Africa to Australia and New Zealand Ambassador Mongalo.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN IN HIS YMCA NAIROBI, KENYA MORTEL ROOM WHERE HE STAYED THE LAST YEAR OF HIS 11 YEAR EXILE IN 1990, UNTIL HE RETURNED TO SOUTH AFRICA ON 22 DECEMBER 1990, WITH THE HELP OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN COUNCIL OF CHURCHES AND THE AFRICAN COUNCIL OF CHURCHES, BOTH OF WHICH WERE LED BY THE LATE ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU. THE KENYAN YMCA ACCOMODATION WAS ALSO ARRANGED BY ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU AND THE AFRICAN COUNCIL OF CHURCHES.

BELOW IS CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN'S STERN-LOOKING ELDER SON BUT SECOND BORN MODISE GABRIEL MOGOTSI, NAMED AFTER MY LATE FATHER (RIP), WHO IS STILL BUSY WITH HIS STUDIES .

Below CEDIA Founder & Chairman in the company of three generations of Mogotsi: His late father Modise Gabriel Mogotsi, him amd my children Tebogo & Modise Gabriel Jr in my New York apartment in 1996.

BELOW IS CEDIA FOUNDER & CHIRMAN'S YOUNGISH MOTHER (LEFT) WITH HER FRIEND IN ALEXANDRA TOWNSHIP, JOHANNESBURG IN THE EARLY 1960S, WHERE CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN WAS BORN.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN'S THREE SIGHTS AND MOMENTS OF HIS EARLY PATERNAL PARENTING.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN ON A BOAT TOUR ON LAKE GENEVA, GENEVA, SWITERLAND, 1996.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN PRESENTING HIS MA (HISTORY) DISSERTATION BEFORE A FORMIDABLE PANEL OF MOSCOW'S PATRICE LUMUMBA PEOPLE'S FRIENDSHIP UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS IN 1987.

ABOVE, FIRST PICTURE: CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN, THEN A HISTORY TEACHER, TAKING A STROLL IN 1988 WITH A FELLOW AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS (ANC) EXILE THROUGH THE ANC'S MAZIMBU, MOROGORO, TANZANIA SETTLEMENT WHERE THE SOLOMON MAHLANGU FREEDOM COLLEGE (SOMAFCO) WAS LOCATED AND WHERE CEDIA FOUNDER & TEACHER TAUGHT, WHICH WAS HIS FIRST PROFESSIONAL JOB EVER ABOVE, SECOND PICTURE: THE LAST PICTURE OF A YOUNGISH CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN ADDRESSING SOME STUDENTS OF HEBRON TEACHERS' TRAINING COLLEGE DURING APARTHEID TIMES AND JUST BEFORE HE LEFT FOR POLITICAL EXILE IN JULY 1980 TO JOIN THE THEN BANNED ANC OF NESLON MANDELA & OLIVER REGINALD TAMBO.

BELOW THE YOUNGISH CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMA MAKING A POLITICAL POINT TO HIS FELLOW HEBRON TEACHERS' TRAINING COLEGE STUDENTS AT THE BOARDING IN EARLY 1980.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN BEING CONGRATULATED AND GIFTED WITH BOOKS BY THE DEAN OF THE DEPARTMRNT OF HISTORY AT MOSCOW'S PATRICE LUMUMBA PEOPLE'S FRIENDSHIP UNIVERSITY, ASSISTED BY HIS OFFICE'S STAFF, FOR BEING THE BEST MA (HISTORY) STUDENT OF THE 1987 CLASS.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN, THEN DIRECTOR OF THE MIDDLE EAST SECTION OF SOUTH AFRICA'S DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS (DFA), MEETING WITH FORMER ISRAELI DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER EHUD OLMERT IN TEL AVIV IN THE PRESENCE OF SOUTH AFRICA'S AMBASSADOR TO ISRAEL AMBASSADOR GIBA.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN, THEN THE CHIEF DIRECTOR IN SOUTH AFRICA'S DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS (DFA) MEETING WITH TAWAIN'S DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER IN TAIPEI, TAIWAN.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN VISITING NEAR JERUSALEM'S OLD CITY, PALESTINE 2004.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN TOGETHER WITH TWO SOUTH AFRICAN DIPLOMATIC COLLEAGUES STANDING ON MOUNT OLIVES IN EAST JERUSALEM, PALESTINE, WITH THEIR BACKS FACING THE BIBLICAL GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE IN 2004.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN INSIDE THE OLD CITY, JERUSALEM'S HOLIEST PLACE, IN PALESTINRE, IN 2005.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN AT THE TOMB OF THE BIBLICAL PATRIARCH ABRAHAM IN HEBRON, PALESTINE IN 2004.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN STANDING IN FRONT OF THE GREAT SPHYNX OF GIZA, CAIIRO, EGYPT IN 2002.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN TAKING A BREAK IN THE DESERT OF IRAQ'S ANBAR PROVINCE DURING AN ARDUOUS, LONG ROAD TRIP IN AN AMERICAN SUV BETWEEN AMMAN, JORDAN AND BAGHDAD, IRAQ IN 2000.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN IN THE SNOW-COVERED COUNTRYSIDE OF GENEVA, SWITZERLAND IN 1996.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN SITTING ON A BENCH UNDER A WILLOW TREE IN THEN PIETER ROOS PARK BETWEEN PARKTOWN, WHERE HE LIVED AS A UNIVERSITY OF WITWATERSRAND (WITS) POSTGRADUATE STUDENT, AND HILLBROW IN WARM, SUNNY AND LUSH JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA IN THE SUMMER OF 1992.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN WITH HIS FELLOW SOUTH AFRICAN DIPLOMAT ON THE WAY TO SWIM IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN IN CARTEGENA, COLOMBIA WHILST ATTENDING THE NON ALIGNED MOVEMENT (NAM) MINISTERIAL MEETING IN 1996.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN DURING A DIPLOMATIC WORKING VISIT TO DAMASCUS, SYRIA IN 2003.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN ON A WORKING DIPLOMATIC VISIT TO THE GAZA STRIP, PALESTINE IN 2000.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN VISITING THE TERRACOTTA SOLDIERS' MUSEUM IN THE ANCIENT CITY OF XIAN IN THE SHAANXI PROVINCE OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA (PRC) WITH FELLOW SOUTH AFRICAN DIPLOMATS IN 2006.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN VISITING A MUSEUM IN SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA AS A HOST OF SOUTH AFRICA'S AMBASSADOR SCHOEMAN.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN TOGETHER WITH HIS FELLOW SOUTH AFRICAN DIPLOMAT IN THE COMPANY OF INDONESIAN CULTURAL PERFORMERS IN BANDUNG, INDONESIA DURING THE NON ALIGNED MOVEMENT (NAM) MINISTERIAL MEETING IN 1995.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN ENJOYING SUPPER TOGETHER WITH THE LATE SOUTH AFRICAN DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER AZIZ PAHAD AND HIS FORMER CANADIAN WIFE ON A BOAT ON THE NILE RIVER OFF CAIRO, EGYPT IN 2003.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN STRETCHING HIS LEGS NEAR THE HUGE AMERICAN SUV ALONGSIDE A HIGHWAY LINKING AMMAN, JORDAN TO BAGHDAD, IRAQ IN A SMALL TOWN ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF BAGHADAD, 2001

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN VISITING THE ANCIENT CTY OF BYBLOS IN LEBANON IN 2004.

BELOW IS A COPY OF THE CERTIFICATE GIVEN TO CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN AFTER SUMMITING THE HIGHEST POINT OF THE WALL OF CHINA CLOSE TO BEIJING IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA (PRC) IN 2006.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN WITH HIS TWO FEMALE DIPLOMATIC COLLEAGUES DURING THE GALA LUNCHEON ON THE OCCASION OF THE INAUGURATION OF FORMER PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AS SOUTH AFRICA'S FIRST DEMOCRATIC LEADER AT THE UNION BUILDINGS, PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA ON 08 MAY 1994. THE TRIO WORKED AS AMONGST USHERS TO DIGNITORIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD WHO ATTENDED THE INAUGURATION, INCLUDING CUBA'S REVOLUTIONARY LEADER COMMANDANT FIDEL CASTRO, WITH WHOM CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN GLEEFULLY SHOOK HANDS AT THAT AUGUST AND HISTORIC OCCASION.

BELOW ARE INDICATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL GATHERINGS PREVIOUSLY ATTENDED BY CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMN WHEN HE WAS A DIPLOMAT OF SOUTH AFRICA:

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN, THIRD FROM THE FRONT SPOTTING A BLACK CAP, WITH MEMBERS OF THE LEADERSHIP OF THE NORTH WEST PROVINCE'S PROGRESSIVE PROFESSIONAL FORUM (PPF) OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS (ANC) POSING FOR A PICTURE OUTSIDE MADIBENG MUNICIPALITY CONFERENCE FACILITY IN BRITS TOWN.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN READING WELL WISH CARDS IN HIS ALEXANDRA TOWNSHIP HOME WHEN HE TURNED 16 YEAR OLD ON 02 NOVEMBER 1978, THE SAME YEAR HE WATCHED A FIFA SOCCER WORLD CUP TOURNAMENT ON TV #.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN'S FATHER PROUDLY TRYING TO SWITCH ON HIS FIRST TV ACQUISITION.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN, FIRST ON THE FRONT ROW, THEN A FIREBRAND FOLLOWER OF STEVE BIKO'S BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS MOVEMENT (BCM), IN A POLITICAL PROTEST MEETING AT HEBRON TEACHERS' TRAINING COLLEGE IN NORTH PRETORIA, TRANSVAAL, SOUTH AFRICA IN MAY 1980 AGAINST THE BOPHUTHATSWANA BANTUSTAN OF CHIEF LUCAS MANGOPE. THAT WAS THE LAST POLITICAL PROTEST HE ATTENDED UNDER APARTHEID BEFORE HEADING INTO POLITICAL EXILE A FEW MONTHS LATER TO JOIN THE BANNED AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS (ANC)

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN USING HIS HAND TO FEEL THE ICY JUNE MONTH WATER OF THE INDIAN OCEAN OFF THE BEACH OF DURBAN CITY IN SOUTH AFRICA'S PROVINCE OF KWAZULU-NATAL (KZN) IN 1996.

THE AFRICAN SAYING: "IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO BRING UP A CHILD". BELOW ARE THE PENTACOST HOLINESS CHURCH RABOKALA VILLAGE WOMEN ELDERS (PICTURE TAKEN IN 1974) WHO INSTILLED THE ETHICAL AND MORAL VALUES OF CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN AND MOULDED HIM INTO A PERSONALITTY HE BECAME AND IS TODAY. THE SECOND WOMAN ELDER FROM THE LEFT IN THE FRONT ROW IS GRANDMOTHER NCHADI MOGOTSI, THE ELDER SISTER TO CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN'S PATERNAL GRANDMOTHER LOUISAH MACHERE MOGOTSI AND WHO ACTED AS CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN'S SURROGATE MOTHER AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS PATERNAL GRANDMOTHER IN 1972 UNTIL CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN LEFT APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA FOR POLITICAL EXILE IN 1980. LATE GRANDMOTHER NCHADI MOGOTSI IS ANOTHER MASSIVE LIFEFORCE BEHIND THE INTELLECTUAL AND CREATIVE JUICES OF CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN VISITING A DEAREST FRIEND IN ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN IN 1995.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN IN THE CENTER DURING HIS WEDDING TO HIS LATE WIFE (ON HIS RIGHT) AT THEIR VILLAGE OF RABOKALA IN THE NORTH WEST PROVINCE OF SOUTH AFRICA IN 1995.

BELOW IN THE TWO FOLLOWING PICTURES CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN (IN A POLKA DOT JACKET) WAS BEING WELCOMED BACK TO HIS ANCESTRAL VILLAGE OF RABOKALA BY THE VILLAGE ELDERS ON 24 DECEMBER 1990 FOLLOWING HIS RETURN FROM 11 YEAR POLITICAL EXILE ON 22 DECEMBER 1990.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN, CENTER, PARTYING THE NIGHT AWAY WITH FELLOW FORMER EXILES FROM SOWETO AND WITH THE VILLAGERS OF RABOKALA ON 24 DECEMBER 1990.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN WITH HIS DIPLOMATIC COLLEGUES DURING THE GALA LUNCHEON FOLLOWING THE INAUGURATION OF NELSON MANDELA AS THE FIRST DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA .

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN, IN A POLKA DOT SHIRT, ENTERTAINING HIS RWANDESE DIPLOMATIC COLLEAGUES ON HIS NEW YORK APARTMENT'S ON 39TH STREET AND FIRST AVENEU IN MIDTOWN MANHATTAN, NEW YORK, USA, IN 1996.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN, IN A COVID 19 MASK, WITH HIS MOGOTSI CLAN DURING COVID TIMES IN 2021 WHEN THE CLAN HAD REUNION LUNCHEON AT HIS RABOKALA VILLAGE IN THE NORTH WEST PROVINCE OF SOUTH AFRICA.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN, THE OLD MAN AT THE BACK IN THE COMPANY OF HIS CHILDREN (HIS TWO SONS AND HIS DUAGHTER NEXT TO HIM) AS WELL AS HIS MATERNAL STEP SISTER AND HER DAUGHTER AT THE NIGHT VIGIL OF HIS BELOVED LATE WIFE (MHSRIP) HELD IN HIS VILLAGE OF RABOKALA IN MARCH 2023.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN GREETING A RANDOM WELL-WISHER DURING ONE OF EARLY MORNING 12 KM DAILY WALKS AROUND HIS GAUTENG SUBURB IN 2023.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN POSING FOR A STUDIO PHOTO IN GAUTENG PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA DURING THE DYING DAYS OF DECEMBER 2004

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN DURING ONE OF HIS LATE WINTER AFTERNOON 12 KM WALKS IN GAUTENG PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA, IN THE BITTER COLD OF SEPTEMBER 2024.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN WALKING FROM ONE OF THE GAUTENG PROVINCE SHOPPING MALLS IN HIS SUBURBAN NEIGHBOURHOOD DURING ONE OF HIS THERAPEUTIC LOW-BUDGET, MINI SHOPPING SPREE IN THE SPRING OF 2023.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN, IN A CAP, IN A MEETING WITH FELLOW BUSINESSMEN IN A JOHANNESBURG HOTEL, SOUTH AFRICA, IN 2023.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN, THIRD FROM LEFT ON THE TOP, BACK ROW, WITH FELLOW DIPLOMATIC CADETS GRADUATING AS THE DIPLOMATIC TRAINING GROUP OF 1994. CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN WAS THE TOP PERFORMER OF THIS 1994 DIPLOMATIC TRAINING GROUP.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN, SEATED SECOND FROM RIGHT, AND AT THE TIME CHIEF DIRECTOR, WITH THE SENIOR MANAGEMENT (SEATED) AND STAFF (STANDING) OF THE MIDDLE EAST & ASIA SECTION OF THE THEN DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF SOUTH AFRICA IN 2006

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN, FIRST SEATED ON THE EXTREME LEFT, ATTENDING THE WILTON PARK MIDDLE EAST CONFERENCE IN SOUTHERN ENGLAND IN 2002.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN ATTENDING A DIPLOMATIC RECEPTION AT THE PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA-BASED RUSSIAN EMBASSY WITH SOME OF HIS FORMER AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS (ANC) COMRADES/EXILES AND THE HEAD OF DEPARTMENT (ON HIS RIGHT) AT THE TSHWANE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (TUT) IN 2023.

BELOW IS CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN'S WORKING OFFICE IN THE GAUTENG PROVINCE OF SOUTH AFRICA.

BELOW CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN WITH MS. TSHIRELETSO BOKABA WHO FULFILS SECRETARIAL WORK FOR HIM, 2024. THE DUO ARE HOLDING IN THEIR HANDS THE LATEST BOOK OF CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN WITH THE TITLE WISPERING AGAINST THE WIND: DEMOCRATIC SOUTH AFRICA'S SEARCH FOR NATIONAL IDENTITY, 2011 - 2022. THE BOOK WAS PUBLISHED IN 2024 BY CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN'S CO-OWNED COMPANY CEDIA PUBLICATIONS, CO-OWNED WITH RED SPIRAL PRINTERS OF PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA.

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BELOW IS CEDIA FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN IN MIDRAND, GAUTENG PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA ON 06 JANUARY 2024.

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