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Covid has decentralised leadership – and it’s likely the future of business
This journey hasn’t always been easy, but seven months later, many are starting to get the hang of it. They’ve become flexible, that critical leadership trait, and they’re incorporating many other critical leadership characteristics into their daily lives besides. Covid-19 has made huge demands on leadership. Even skilled and experienced leaders who take crises in […]
Oil and gas discoveries south-west Africa set to trigger big investments in Namibia, Angola and South Africa
The key is translating that potential into real benefits for all Africans. Last spring, the Maersk Voyager, an ultra-deepwater drillship under contract by French supermajor Total, drilled a wildcat well in the deepest water ever — 3,628 meters (11,903 feet) in Block 48, a massive area with potentially huge oil reserves in the Congo basin […]
African countries need strategic fiscal policies to survive oil and gas industry
In the case of African countries with oil and gas reserves, those preparations should include a close look at their fiscal regimes The future of the global oil and gas industry has been a subject of great fascination and debate for decades. Since Covid-19 surfaced, there has been even more conjecture on this topic and, […]
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South Africa’s reputation as the highest alcohol consumers in the world
The impact on the person’s health is enormous, affecting many organs of the body, mainly, the liver, and also the pancreas. South Africans have the unflattering reputation as the highest alcohol consumers in the world. A behavioural pattern with dire individual and societal consequences. The American Psychiatric Association defines alcohol as the most dangerous of […]
Covid has decentralised leadership – and it’s likely the future of business
This journey hasn’t always been easy, but seven months later, many are starting to get the hang of it. They’ve become flexible, that critical leadership trait, and they’re incorporating many other critical leadership characteristics into their daily lives besides. Covid-19 has made huge demands on leadership. Even skilled and experienced leaders who take crises in […]
GBV: Lessons from a pandemic
Photo by Byron SullivanThe 16 Days of Activism period, initiated by the first Women’s Global Leadership Institute in 1991, sees countries around the globe staging anti-abuse campaigns from 25 November (International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women) to 10 December (Human Rights Day). We are currently witnessing a time of the year that […]
INNOVATION
Church and the fourth industrial revolution
As a young boy who was raised in the Lutheran Church, one of the things I had to contend with was the determination of...
EDUCATION
SA now experiencing half-year summers
Data on daily maximum and minimum temperatures was collected from 35 meteorological stations of the South African Weather Service, covering the period between 1980...
ECONOMICS
Oil and gas discoveries south-west Africa set to trigger big investments...
The key is translating that potential into real benefits for all Africans.Last spring, the Maersk Voyager, an ultra-deepwater drillship under contract by French supermajor...
