African farmers tap into a rich store of success stories
‘When you network, you hear about how others started their businesses and you get motivated to wake up tomorrow and continue knocking on doors’ Anna Phosa is the only black female commercial pig farmer...
View ArticleWhy Doesn’t Diversity Training Work?
I recently attended a transformation workshop attended by all the heads of departments at Rhodes University, and facilitated by transformation and social justice specialist Professor André Keet from...
View ArticleRedefine boss urges mentors to help youth in developing careers
Rhodes Business School recently hosted Redefine Properties executive chairman Marc Wainer, who hosts CNBC’s Mentorship Challenge. Over the course of a day and a half Wainer, who has more than 40 years’...
View ArticleWhy academia is a good career
There are compelling reasons to become a business school academic. Unfortunately, no-one is making the case The sustainability of academic institutions in SA, including business schools, is under...
View ArticleEarth Overshoot Day is now — and started in the 1970s
In a measurable way they show how up until the 1970s the whole of humankind had eaten away nine days, but since then we have eaten away four months When will humanity’s annual demand on the Earth’s...
View ArticleVBS Mutual Bank should be allowed to collapse
A leading article appearing on the City Press Sunday newspaper on the 12 August 2018 reported that private talks led by the ruling party’s (African National Congress) top 6 leaders were underway to...
View ArticleMoral panic on land reform blocks the path to inclusiveness
Differing degrees of moral panic are being flashed in the mainstream and social media on the impact of expropriation without compensation. The concept of moral panic was first coined by Stanley Cohen,...
View ArticleA Global-Centric Vote
In the build up to our elections, many local and national questions are being asked, but what about the global questions? We constantly talk about globalisation but do we put our politicians and...
View ArticleWay of the Whistleblower
Hardly a day goes by without us reading in the newspaper that someone has done something wrong somewhere in business or government. It feels like a barrage of corruption and wrongdoings but it’s not...
View ArticleSouth Africa’s jobs summit failed to tackle the hard issues
South Africa recently hosted a Jobs Summit that brought key stakeholders –government, business and labour – under one roof to find better ways of tackling the country’s stubbornly high unemployment...
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