What can popular conference speakers in South Africa and high school leadership camps in Parys possibly have in common. High school leadership camps act as unique melting pots where children from all strata of the society meet, spend a few days together while they share their feelings, perspectives and reactions to all things that keep happening around them and of course often invite conference speakers onto the scene. True, all that we fondly cherish about these camps that we attended during our school days are the chorus songs, blazing bonfires and little pranks that we indulged in, but from a broader perspective; we had returned with a lot more than only these fond memories. Though we did not realize but those days were our first lessons in learning how to adjust and be at ease with people from different milieus and cultures. As these high school leadership camps in Parys usually never differentiate on account of gender, financial or ethnic considerations, we had our first taste of mingling with all those that we thought were ‘others' and genuinely realized in our own largely immature and adolescent manner that our country did not belong only to ‘us'. There are a large number of ‘them' who also consider this country as their own - certainly a common theme of the conference speakers in South Africa. This lesson that we learnt at high school leadership camps in Parys helped us in a very significant way to adjust to the diversities that life and society kept throwing at us with unfailing regularity as we got older in years. And the message from those conference speakers in South Africa that have been invited became so much mature.