Our vision...

We strongly believe in the important value of active social participation. We feel that operating in Africa solely for the sake of money is immoral and shortsighted and thus we are very actively involved in various areas of the African society:

1: In our own district, we are active members of the Matzikama Tourism Board and Koos Greeff represented the town of Klawer on this board for a number of years. We are also involved with a development program in and around Klawer.

2: In Namibia, the Chabura Trust is involved in Social Development in the northern areas of Namibia as well as the southern areas of Angola. We have been actively involved with this trust since its birth in 1989 - actually, Koos initiated this trust. Our involvement includes serving on the board of trustees, offering training courses free of charge, helping with self-help projects, looking for donors, taking groups of donors or other interested people there, supplying of food, medicine, clothing, training material etc. This also involves close contact with people living in the deep rural areas of Namibia and making use of their services with our productions.

3: During 1984, Koos became involved with a group of Angolan refugees receiving medical treatment in a hospital. This involvement culminated in him visiting them during 1988 in their settlement called “Buffalo” on the Okavango River in the Caprivi Strip of Namibia. In August 2000, Koos visited the same area again and met various leaders for a three-day conference on sustainable development. Also during 2000, Koos visited another Angolan Refugee Camp called “Osire” about 250 km north of Windhoek and immediately saw the tremendous need there. (This camp became well known later on in that year when Angelina Jolie also visited it)

We arranged for various donations of training material, food, medicine and clothing and personally delivered it to these areas. We also traveled to Osire three times to assist in the training of leaders. Since peace came to Angola, most of these people have been repatriated. Through the services of Chabura Trust, we manage to keep contact with them and at present are in the process of implementing various development projects in Angola.

4: Since the late 1990’s, we became aware of the desperate situation in Malawi and Mozambique. This culminated in us visiting Malawi and meeting some of the leaders from both Malawi and Mozambique in May of 1998. We became involved with some of the Development Projects that are currently running in both of these countries. These activities are more or less concentrated around the hospital and staff at Nkoma in Malawi, Vila Ulongwe and Milange in Mozambique. We are in regular contact with various people working in these areas and are privileged to help them in many ways.

We feel that continuation is of vital importance. We do not agree at all with the idea to do a production in a tribal area and then just leave these people. Since our very first production in 1989, we have managed to maintain contact with the people involved. So much of Africa suffered under the colonial idea of just "mining" or "reaping" without "ploughing" anything of permanence back. Al of us here at Africa Productions is true Africans and we believe in the African dream of a "Renaissance" of Africa. Thus, the bottom line of our philosophy is sustainability and accountability.