Let’s face facts Africa wakes up
Just as European countries tear into each other over dodgy banking systems and a wonky…
Radio hosts economist Mike Schussler
Radio hosts economist Mike Schussler who wonders why we don’t place obligations on recipients of…
WHAM! Radio: SAIRR demographer Thuthukani Ndebele tells of how well we’re doing in slaying the Aids dragon…
“Changing Destiny – Mon 18 Mar 2013 Topic: “SA’s AIDS victory?” Guest:Thuthukani Ndebele, SAIRR demographics…
Today In Fact, 19 March
Scoffing at science (fiction). Today in 2008, Arthur C. Clark, the science fiction author and…
SAPS winning our war
Just as they are winning the war on crime, bemused police have their own crimes…
Today in Fact, 18 March
The birth of FW de Klerk. Today is a day worth reflecting on loyalty and…
Are you a workaholic?
Are you a workaholic? It was a question I was forced to confront last week…
Toxic Language, SA DNA and Hope
TOXIC LANGUAGE, SA DNA, AND HOPE I think there are three things that we South…
Kulula Not Getting There
Sarah Britten casts a sharp eye on Kulula’s campaign that plays on SAA branding I…
Where’s Today’s National Myth?
Sarah Britten gives a field guide to our defining ideas of the last 20 years,…
Today in Fact, 13 March
Mido Macia and the “bystander effect”. It was cold early morning today in New York…
Changing Destiny
“Changing Destiny – Mon 11 Mar 2013 Topic: “Labour law is killing us” Guest: Herman…
Today in Fact, 12 March
In the dying years of the old apartheid regime, negotiations were ongoing between the various…
Give the poor some credit
As the cabinet considers asking Parliament to grant a new amnesty to people with bad…
Hash tags, slacktivists and real change
Sarah Britten talks about the possibilities, the mirages, and the limits, of societal changes driven…
Today in Fact, 11 March
An original – the libertarian socialist who loathed bureaucracy. One of the great failings of…
Today in Fact, 8 March
The Spanish madman who started St Johns. I know that today we mark International Women’s…
Today in fact, 7 March
The death of Thomas Aquinas. Around the year 300 or so, the Roman Empire was…
Today in Fact, 6 March
Of the seven or so theories of personality taught at university psychology departments, perhaps the…
Open letter to Wits
OPEN LETTER TO A UNIVERSITY I LOVE, OF WHICH I HAVE VERY HIGH EXPECTATIONS Dear…
Charitable CSI is okay
There’s a nicely put-together online debate hosted by The Economist under the rubric “CSR has…
Vavi’s comeuppance
It is comforting to boil political developments in SA down to simple ANC factional politics….
Today in Fact, 5 March
Today may be regarded as Communist Leaders Day if we were that way inclined. I…
Changing Destiny
Changing Destiny – Mon 4 Mar 2013 – Topic: “A nation of shopkeepers we are”….
Anglo’s CSI gives back
It’s curious how many companies spend so much publicising their societal good works, yet don’t…
SA and that Time cover
Alex Perry’s story about Oscar Pistorius and South Africa’s culture of violence has inevitably attracted…
Today in Fact, 4 March
Our bodies are amazing. Take the pituitary gland for example. The name “pituitary” derives from…