Last week, I was lucky to be one of the adjudicators in the 2019 Impumelelo Community Chest Social Innovation Awards. Apart from being massively impressed by all of the 30 submissions that we meticulously went through over a solid two-day period, I was also saddened by something else; but I will come to that in [...]
If it were to be revealed someday that the new craze of our times, #I’mStaying, were a government funded campaign aimed at countering the growing number of departures, or of making those who have left, are leaving or are planning to leave, feel bad about themselves, I would believe it. But since I haven’t done [...]
Many must be disappointed by recent questions surrounding DA leader, Mmusi Maimane’s rented house in Cape Town and the car that he drove. It doesn’t make any sense that he would have recorded the house in parliament’s register as belonging to him when it didn’t, and kept driving the loaned car, even, it is said, [...]
President Cyril Ramaphosa was right to apologise on behalf of South Africa for the violence that engulfed parts of our country in recent weeks, much of which was directed at foreign nationals from the rest of the African continent. He is also correct to send out teams of emissaries to assure affected countries that his [...]
In last week’s column, I sought to place a spotlight on the 2019 World Economic Forum on Africa, the progress that has been made in implementing some of the resolutions reached at the last forum, as well as the relevance of the 2019 programme to the political and economic status quo in South Africa. At [...]