Howie Sackstein, beaming up from Jerusalem!

As per his LinkedIn tagline, Howard Sackstein is a lawyer by training and entrepreneur by profession, but Howie is also the self-proclaimed King of social media, explosive political activist, ringmaster of Zoom and official photographer of life itself.

Howie founded the Jewish anti-Apartheid movement in South Africa, Jews for Social Justice, and fought actively against the apartheid regime.

He consulted to a number of companies looking to invest in South Africa during the transition to democracy and took Nelson Mandela to Brussels to introduce him to key business and political leaders in Europe.

He was Executive Director of South Africa’s Independent Electoral Commission, the IEC, in its transition to democracy and served there from 1994 to 2000, responsible for much of the 1994 and 1999 elections.

Howie is non-executive chairperson of the SA Jewish Report Newspaper & chair of the Jewish Achiever Awards.