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Get business on board to cut disaster risk
From micro family-run ventures to giant multinationals, companies are often hard hit by disasters that erode their bottom line or force them out of business altogether. But while companies have much to lose, they have a huge amount to offer, so it is vital that we better engage the private sector if we are to […]
How government can get less bang for its buck
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s medium-term budget speech told the story of an economy that is at a critical crossroad. He detailed serious growth and spending problems, which are not being helped by the challenges of the major State-Owned Enterprises. Minister Mboweni was clear that the National Treasury will not tolerate wasteful spending any longer. The […]
South Africa’s road killings: A window into the Lawless Psyche of our Nation
As I write this article, newspaper headlines cover the death of Bavelile Hlongwa, Deputy Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy. Bavelile was killed on the same road where Minister Collins Chabane was killed in March 2015. The cause? A driver of a truck ploughed into a group of people helping at the scene of another […]
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It’s time to embrace the power of cultural democracy, incompleteness and conviviality
As humans living in a deeply polarised world, we often carry stereotypes and assumptions in our heads about people who are different from us and those who do not fit into our preconceived ideas about the way things should be. One plausible reason may be due to a lack of proper knowledge and open-mindedness needed […]
The end of French economic dominance in West Africa
It has taken 75 years, but finally the francophone countries of West Africa have broken free from one of the last vestiges of French colonialism – the CFA franc. Since 1945 West and Central African nations have been pegged to the French franc and then the Euro, and had 50% of their foreign reserves held […]
Crime plagues every sector of SA
It’s the New Year, but it’s the Same Old Story: crime plagues every sector of South Africa, and South Africa acts as if it is powerless to stop it. The non-stop onslaught of lawlessness is terrifying: murders, robberies, rapes, kidnappings, hijackings, white-collar crime…the list goes on. Every day there are 58 murders in our country. A woman is raped every 10 minutes. In the time […]
INNOVATION
Start up, go global, get paid – all with crypto
I have seen it time and time again: smart, young African entrepreneurs, who have the potential to turn their independent online businesses into the...
EDUCATION
South Africa is heading for a credit rating downgrade to junk...
Eskom continues to pose a great threat to South Africa’s economy, making it likely that South Africa will be downgraded to junk status in...
ECONOMICS
South Africa is heading for a credit rating downgrade to junk...
Eskom continues to pose a great threat to South Africa’s economy, making it likely that South Africa will be downgraded to junk status in...
