About Us
Mangaliso Tours is a social enterprise using innovative tour products to deliver social and economic value to disadvantaged communities. To play our part in the continual unfolding of this country’s destiny, Mangaliso Tours works to touch the communities along our journey, as they have touched us. We strive to live by the principle of ubuntu —a southern African philosophy which focuses on the morality of compassion, community spiritedness, concern for the interests of the collective, and respect for the dignity of personhood.
Khonaye Tuswa
Khonaye was born in the rural Eastern Cape, where many of Xhosas are from. In his childhood days h e spent a lot of time herding the cattle and sheep, working in the cornfields, using the animal-drawn wagons and milking cows by hand. Khonaye is quite proud of his upbringing, and has come a long way from those days. Khonaye has been in the tourism industry since 2002. He graduated from East London College with a Tourism Diploma. He then worked for the Tsoga Environmental Resource Centre as a site guide. He fell in love with guiding and the rest, as they say, is history. He started a tour company in 2006 and is now branching out further into the world of tourism.
Dash Douglas
Dash is an expatriate attorney from America. After his Juris Doctorate, Dash was driven to devote his life to helping the disadvantaged. He went to the University of Washington for a Master of Laws in international social and economic development. After several years as a civil rights litigator, Dash was asked to be the Executive Director of a race-relations program for a business consulting firm in New York. This position helped him see the social benefits that could be gained from a career in business. Dash has always dreamed of living in South Africa. In fact, he and his wife named their sons after two of South Africa’s many great leaders. One son’s middle name is “Mandela” and the other son’s is “Biko”. Dash is fulfilling a dream by having a business that helps to serve the people and land of South Africa.
Thulani Khuzwayo
Thulani brings to Mangaliso Tours expertise in the Kwa-Zulu Natal province. Being Zulu himself, and having lived his whole life in Kwa-Zulu Natal, Thulani has developed a passion for Zulu culture and history. He has expressed this passion through his work in the tourism industry for several years. Thulani operates the Rorke’s Drift Café and Tours company and offers a rich understanding of the battles fought between the Zulus and the British.
