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Earth Overshoot Day is now - and started in the 1970s

African farmers tap into a rich store of success stories

Fair play and the spirit of sport

Conscientiousness or Creativity

Trust Trumps Everything

From Magersfontein to Westminster

ADC business partners benefits from MBA Service Learning Programme

Brilliant Trade Law Initiative By Students For Students

Foot soldiers and boards

Is it tragedy or is it hope? Death of 94 patients has elevated mental health issues

All stakeholders in higher education must act in good faith

Goal is free education, but path is debatable

Education needs a sustainable funding model

Reasons for Hope

SA should study how Australia exports degrees

A New Basis From Which To Think And Act

People need to embrace power of knowledge

Let’s start with prioritising quality education

We have a human problem

A Sense of Community

What DIVIDES US is LESS REAL than the HISTORY that BINDS US TOGETHER (Part ii)

What DIVIDES US is LESS REAL than the HISTORY that BINDS US together (Part i)

Partnership to mainstream biodiversity into business in South Africa

The future of management education: Integrated thinking, a ‘no- brainer’

FRUIT OF THE POISONED TREE – part 2

FRUIT OF THE POISONED TREE – part 1

Business Unusual – what about business education?

Deaf by stakeholder

Your future is the one you choose – now build it

The Need to Differ Well

Is Africa being sold for a handful of glass beads?

Paper and printing: a vested interest in sustainability

Don’t wait too long to begin your Green Journey

A sustainable future: politics papering over the issues?

What’s the impact of one pink dress?

Eyona indala

On the horns of a dilemma

A Humble Request

Chickens and horses

CSR: Spend or Investment?

Are Renewables Sustainable?

Where angels fear to tread

Part 3 – Greying populations: where is the demographic dividend?

Integrated Reporting – A Way of Thinking
 
The Case of Big Business and The Missing Bunny

Oh ignore him – he’s an environmentalist
 
Part 2 – Migration: the finger in the dyke
 
Part 1 – It’s all about Globalization, mate!

Thoughts on the indivisibility of social and environmental justice

Have we gone past the turning point?

Get serious about youth empowerment: Small things tell a big story

Inspirational leadership: It’s not about being the boss [Podcast]

Just start

Q&A: Sustainable cities – a modern legend (Part 2)

Q&A: Sustainable cities – a modern legend (Part 1)

Nelson Mandela Day – A time to remind and remember

The balance in life

Saying no is easier than saying yes

Who do you think you’re talking to?
 
 
 

 

Last Modified: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:14:00 SAST

Earth 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

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’

Fair play and the spirit of sport

A blog by sports editor Theo Garrun was doing the rounds on social media last month, relaying a conversation between a 13-year-old Capetonian schoolboy and his mother after a 1st team water polo player had his jaw broken and several teeth knocked out in a punch-up in the Bishops versus Rondebosch game.

Conscientiousness or Creativity

Are conscientiousness and creativity mutually exclusive?

Trust Trumps Everything

Trust trumps everything, that’s what one of my favourite speakers on ethics, Brand Pretorius, said at the Nelson Mandela Bay Leadership Summit, an initiative of the Ukuvula Foundation in June this year.

From Magersfontein to Westminster

My Dad was a history teacher and a blue blooded Brit. Up to his dying day he would stand to attention if he just heard the band strike up with ‘God save the Queen.’

ADC business partners benefits from MBA Service Learning Programme

The MBA class for 2017 from the Rhodes Business School, visited the Assumption Development Centre (ADC) as part of the Service Learning Program. The service learning program is a process with 3 phases done at Joza.

Brilliant Trade Law Initiative By Students For Students

It’s a brilliant, annual initiative by law students for law students, and it is incredibly tough and challenging.

Foot soldiers and boards

During the parliamentary ad hoc committee’s SABC inquiry, I was riveted to the accounts from the courageous, committed SABC 8, including the economics editor, Thandeka Gqubule, who inspired me with her commitment to do the right thing and expose what was happening inside the organisation.

Is it tragedy or is it hope? Death of 94 patients has elevated mental health issues

Although there is a dichotomy in the meaning of this expression, ‘one becomes alive as another one dies’, it perfectly highlights how the tragic and unjustified deaths of 94 extremely vulnerable mental health patients has brightly shone the spotlight directly onto the state and civil society’s responsibility for medical care.