Counting trees, missing woo
By Paul Pereira Having discovered there was an unprecedented rolling-back of poverty this last…
When CSI is the tipping point
If you imagine that CSI can transform SA, then you’re doing it wrong… By Paul…
The ins and outs of Inside-Out Diversity workshops!
Running Inside-Out Diversity workshops has truly been a blessing and a challenge, testing whether I…
The Race Debate: Care to get out of the Boxing Ring?
Conversations around race relations and racism in our country has become an absurd concoction of…
The Reality of Sexuality in South Africa
On the 10th of October 2015, I was privileged to host my first Sexual (Real)ity…
Reframing Diversity
The concept of Diversity in South Africa might seem like a worn out tyre to…
A Reflection on Creativity & Toxicity
Creativity is placed on a pedestal as a quality of high importance, necessary for…
Creativity as a Critical Thinking Tool
Last week, I was blessed to attend and present a workshop at The 9th Annual…
What is The Creativity Revolution up to?
The Creativity Revolution, founded by Chelsey May, is evolving slowly… but surely. Earlier this year,…
Verwoerd, Zuma and the Chiefs
By William Beinart It may seem mischievous to suggest that Jacob Zuma’s thinking on chiefs…
The Creativity Revolution: Activating Creativity For Social Change
My name is Chelsey May and I am the founder of The Creativity Revolution. About Me…
Neither miracle nor apocalypse
By Paul Pereira We have experienced neither miracle nor apocalypse in the changes we see…
First they came for the miners…
Martin Brassey SC says that weak-kneed courts are opening the door to expropriation without compensation….
Lynching Mogoeng, burning the church
By Paul Pereira As he addressed a conference on religion, morality and the law in…
WHAM! Media Background Brief – Africa Rising?
SECTIONS (Click to Jump): The Continental Context The global rise of Africa Africa – the…
Red overalls
VIVA RED OVERALLS! VIVA DEMOCRACY! Can we please celebrate red overalls in Parliament? Not…
South African public schools: the good, the bad, the best. Part two
I think we may have forgotten just how divided we were in the past. Under…
South African public schools; the good, the bad, the best. Part one
PUBLIC SCHOOLS: THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE BEST. Talk given at the Tshikululu/IQ business Serious…
Discourse of Disillusion
By Paul Pereira This time next year we may well think we’ve been through the…
Riots: “Police under siege”
By Paul Pereira This week’s burning down of a library in Bronkhorstspruit by protesters angry…
Expats come home – but we need more. South Africa calls…
By Paul Pereira Since 1994, South Africa has suffered a net loss of highly skilled…
Whisper it Softly – Our Schools are Getting Better …
By Paul Pereira This week Minister of Basic Education Angier Motshekga reiterated…
Races mixing it up
Last month’s mourning on the death of former President Nelson Mandela had an almost Diana-esque…
SA’s “Muddle Through” is Okay
A year’s beginning is always a good time for refreshing hope, but realism is key….
Counting Blessings
By Paul Pereira There must be few countries where the discussion about…
The rise of SA’s women entrepreneurs
By Paul Pereira For all the improvements in living conditions, income, health and longevity these…
Companies play ball with NPOs
In this season of giving, it is perhaps encouraging to note that the private sector…
A Plan Fanciful Enough to Consider
By Paul Pereira As South Africa gets ready for a long general election campaign that…
The end of “over-population”
The past two centuries have seen such exponential population growth across the world that the…
Unions in decline
As our trade unions flex their muscles in a year that has been a reminder…
A Healthier Continent Could get Better
Of all the things we can measure when looking at how society is faring, surely…
Our MPs crowd our jails
Nobody likes prisoners and nobody wants to be one. But the state of a country’s…
Today In Fact, 22 October
The end of the World was supposed to happen today in 1844. The followers of…
Unification is slow and difficult
It is 22 years since the reunification of Germany, just under 20 years since South…
Welfare and the Debt Trap
South Africa has built proportionately the world’s biggest welfare state in just 20 years. We’ve…