My Big Mistakes — And What I Learned From Them

Signatory appeal

We had a big full-page ad, which was paid for by our supporters and listed their names as contributors. We had too many for the page, and we had to let a few slip off the bottom. How embarrassing then when some while later I went to a job interview at the HIV/AIDS charity the Terrence Higgins Trust (THT), only to discover that my future boss and his wife had been two of the names who had been dropped off. Luckily, he gave me the job anyway and later joined my volunteer team at ANC, when we brought together a fundraising team for the first democratic election in South Africa.