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Inspiration

from the

Good Things Guy

Kindness matters.
Our actions and reactions
are important.
How we make people feel
should never be taken lightly.

Brent Lindeque

any readers will recall that campaign AA: How has the Good Things Guy platform
call ‘Random Acts of Kindness’ grown over the past six years?
Minitiated by Brent Lindeque. By BL: The Good Things Guy is dedicated
changing the Neknominations Drinking Game to telling good news stories about South
into an initiative to spread goodwill, Brent Africa and ordinary South Africans doing
used the power of social media to encourage extraordinary things. The platform is one of
all and sundry to ‘pay it forward’ and the leading good news sites in the country
perform random acts of kindness to brighten and has grown from just one person (myself)
up the lives of people less fortunate than with a simple idea, to a full team that brings
themselves. good news to South Africans every day. The
website and its supporting platforms have
He started by buying a homeless person a
simple fast food meal and then encouraged
others to do the same. The next step was a
platform which he branded the ‘Good Things
Guy’.

With multiple awards under his belt and
exposure locally on Carte Blanche, Espresso,
5Fm, eNCA, News24, Radio702 and
internationally on Mashable, Huffington Post,
CNN, BBC, Sky News, Oprah and the Ellen
Degeneres Show, Brent will be the first to
acknowledge how that first random act of
kindness has changed his life dramatically.
We touched base with Brent at his home in
Dainfern to hear more about his journey and
the growth of his web-based initiative.

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