CSI’s Multiplyer Benefits to Government
By Paul Pereira As we discussed HERE, corporate social investment (CSI) in essentially a voluntary…
South Africa’s CSI Reporting Often Misleads – Study
While criticism at claims made about community development and project delivery usually focuses on the…
Drinking With Ghosts (2)
Michael Schmidt, author of “Drinking with Ghosts”, talks about SA’s secret nuclear weapons programme pre-1994,…
Africa Trending
Paul Pereira talks to Good Governance Africa CEO John Endres about that organisation’s just-released annual…
The Angel
By Viv Vermaak The universe does work in mysterious ways. It’s weird. I never expected…
The Russian
By Viv Vermaak Sometimes I go to the pub and pretend to be Russian. I…
Mind the Work Gap
Gillian Godsell talks to Jocelyn Smith, development & entrepreneurship consultant; Leigh-Ann Moulder, The corporate Ladder…
BEE – Helping or hurting?
The SAIRR’s Anthea Jeffery tells Paul Pereira about her new book, and how race-based law…
Third World Child
GG Alcock tells Paul Pereira about his journey from rural Msinga to running the Minanawe…
Growing the Bara Children’s Burns Unit
Dr David Kloek of the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital Paediatric Burns Unit, along with volunteer…
Choose What You Wear
JEPPE GIRLS VALEDICTORY OCTOBER 2014 The very first time you wrote the…
A Nation in its Twenties
In their weekly PowerFM chat, Azania Mosaka and Paul Pereira talk about what it means…
A Nation of Shoppers
GIBS marketing lecturer Kerry Chipp on a new survey of South African shopping mall habits…
The Criminal Underworld
Paul Pereira tells PowerFM’s Azania Mosaka of a tipping point in SA’s fight against organised…
Beating organised crime
IRS Forensic Investigations chairman Chad Thomas on how crime bosses work together but are beginning…
Memories of Pondoland
By Tony McGregor Move to Buntingville In 1960 my family moved to Buntingville, a former…
Let’s Name SA’s Turkey
By Hilton Hamann I am, quite often, prejudiced and bigoted. I’m not proud of it…
Greener grass on whose side?
Azania Mosaka and Paul Pereira talking on PowerFM about who is leaving SA, and who is…
Schools that Unlock Learning
Part 2 of Don Millwood’s description of the Creating Schools Trust approach to schools that…
Verwoerd, Zuma and the Chiefs
By William Beinart It may seem mischievous to suggest that Jacob Zuma’s thinking on chiefs…
Drinking with Ghosts
Director of the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism Michael Schmidt discusses themes from…
Neither Miracle nor Apocalypse
Paul Pereira’s presentation to the Free Market Foundation on how SA has changed, and continues…
Humans of Jozi
JoziFolk website founder Hilton Hamann tells how ordinary people face tough times and quick change…
Building schools to win
Don Millwood on how the Creating Schools Trust builds beautiful, multi-functional schools in PPPs that cost…
Neither miracle nor apocalypse
By Paul Pereira We have experienced neither miracle nor apocalypse in the changes we see…
What really works in CSI?
WHAM!’s Paul Pereira talks to Chai FM about the extent, history and effectiveness of corporate…
When CEOs Do Well by Doing Good
By Michelle Matthews Companies are increasingly called upon to demonstrate values that go beyond marketing…
Graceful exit from CSI
By Karen Krakowitzer Whether for reasons of morality, employee and consumer pressure, mandates of the…
First they came for the miners…
Martin Brassey SC says that weak-kneed courts are opening the door to expropriation without compensation….
The sorry state of the press
Former Citizen editor Martin Williams says that too many journalists write for each other rather…
How we’re changing dynamically
WHAM!’s Paul Pereira takes Gillian Godsell on a fact-based tour of how SA has…
Why Belonging is a Fundamental Human Need
By Kathy Kure Human Survival requires that we belong; we are hardwired to be socially…
The real state of Joburg’s DA
Paul Pereira bowls some bouncers at DA ward candidate Anthony Still, who holds the…
Shame of an Aid Worker
Jillian Reilly tells the Trialogue CSI Matters conference how some NGOs pay more attention to…
Our Next Ten Years
Frans Cronje, CEO of the SAIRR, discusses the scenarios outlined in his bestselling book,…