President Africa - Hanshi Peter Brandon

Vice President IKGA

President of All Africa Karate Goju Kai

About Hanshi Peter Brandon

Peter Brandon Hanshi is a visionary and pioneer that has catapulted Africa into becoming one of the most formidable continents in the world in the art of Gojukai. He has worked loyally and passionately alongside the Yamaguchi Family for the past 35 years and was appointed President for Africa by our founder father Grand Master Gogen Yamaguchi 26 years ago.

Peter Brandon Hanshi built Gojukai on an idea of true belonging brought to reality by instilling the values a true hierarchy. Peter Brandon Hanshi stands at the top of five generations of students. He understands the vital importance of our history deeply rooted from the olden days in Japan, ‘life gives us back what we put in’, and a true example of this universal truth is South Africa’s realisation to have been able to stage the most significant World Championship ever held. Peter Brandon Hanshi believes that the next 100 years will be as prosperous and that our President Saiko Shihan and his son will propel Gojukai into the future with continuous learning. The legend of Yamaguchi must live on.

Message from Hanshi Peter Brandon

From the time I started teaching in 1967 at Zolani Centre in Nyanga, his lifelong passion has been the upliftment of people and their communities through Goju Kai Karate. I am pleased to see that it is playing such an enormous role in the lives of so many people.

Over the years, I have observed karate to be holistic vehicle, which provides students with the tools to make a differenc in each of their own lives. In order to achieve this, a pact of commitment is forged between the karateka and their instructors. This commitment is very often supported and upheld by an extended structure including family, friends and health professionals. So the sacrifices and efforts that are made, are mutual and disseminated. This leads me to encourage all of us, as members of this extended Goju Kai family to aim to effect a change in the pattern that exists in a person's life through karate. Regardless of how small or large that change may be, you will be supporting our vision of the upliftment of all people.

Peter Brandon