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agda van der Walt is a woman with many jobs but a single passion—to bring the hope of the gospel to South Africa. As a prominent commercial real estate consultant, radio host, and founder of Work Skills Resources (a business consulting and leadership development company), Van der Walt’s network gives her access to her country’s top-level government officials and business icons. Van der Walt unabashedly uses her influence to address Africa’s social challenges as a way to fulfill the biblical mandate to evangelize the world. She has resisted attempts to draft her for political position, convinced that her current roles give her more flexibility to minister, but she enjoys near-celebrity status in South Africa, where she is known simply as Magda. Van der Walt works on many fronts—countering the growing Islamic influence in South Africa, discipling the wives of African kings and leading them to the Lord, and serving as liaison between Christian charities and government organizations. But with an estimated 5.4 million people in South Africa infected with the HIV virus, AIDS prevention is her
Van der Walt’s weekly radio show reaches 180,000 listeners. PRISM 2008
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