The Coming of the Social Entrepreneur
“The coming of the social entrepreneur in SA”, with Kerryn Krige of the GIBS Centre…
What happens when you tweet about paying tolls
Sarah Britten is threatened for paying a lawful account… This afternoon, I queued at a…
Today In Fact, 8 January
The king of Rock-n-Roll was born in Tupelo Mississippi today in 1935. Elvis Presley came…
Today In Fact, 7 January
There is an ancient and venerable form of Christianity which known as Coptic Christianity and…
Today In Fact, 6 January
On this day in 1929 a young Albanian nun of the Loreto Sisters arrived in…
Today In Fact, 5 January
Supply creates demand. This classic saying from liberal capitalist economics was promoted by Jean-Baptise Say,…
Today In Fact, 4 January
I once lived in a town called Reading in Berkshire, some 70 kilometres due West…
Today In Fact, 3 January
The Portuguese for most of the 15th Century had been inching down the West African…
Today In Fact, 2 January
A Carnival Day. In the 1980’s I did community work on the Cape Flats and…
Today In Fact, 1 January
In Roman times, every town and city had an amphitheatre where games were played. These…
Today In Fact, 31 December
The end of the year. In my youth this was a time of parties and…
Today In Fact, 30 December
Today in 1916, Russian aristocrats and a British spy, Oswald Rayner shot and killed Rasputin,…
Today In Fact, 29 December
What role has the Church with the State? The problem is not, in essence a…
Today In Fact, 28 December
Today many Christians mark the feast of the holy innocents. In Spain and Latin America,…
Today In Fact, 27 December
The man who did more than any other to prolong human life and promote health…
Today In Fact, 26 December
The feast of St. Stephen. That first Christian martyr, stoned to death by the pious…
Today In Fact, 25 December
I am often struck by the profound economic benefits Christmas provides for countless businesses and…
Today In Fact, 24 December
Christmas Eve. I recall many feasts and festivities and midnight Masses singing and candles. The…
Today In Fact, 23 December
Near the mouth of the Chulumna River in the Eastern Cape in 1938, a Local…
The debt white South Africans owe
THIS ARTICLE WAS PUBLISHED IN CITY PRESS 22 DECEMBER 2013 Answering Mondli: do whites owe…
Today In Fact, 22 December
When I was at the University of Cape Town in the 1980’s, I found lodgings…
Today In Fact, 21 December
We really have no idea when he died or how he died. The man who…
Today In Fact, 20 December
Persians celebrate today as Yalda. They read poetry to each other and eat pomegranates and…
Today In Fact, 19 December
it takes a special man to be the father of a great man. Born this…
Today In Fact, 18 December
A curious day for birthdays. The Arch-Duke Franz Ferdinand was born this day in 1863….
SA’s 12-point Turnaround
The SAIRR’s John Kane-Berman on the deep flaws of the National Development Plan, and what…
Today In Fact, 17 December
Today in 1903, two Christian brothers, the sons of a Bishop in the Church of…
Today In Fact, 16 December
A busy day for nationalism. The Boston tea party was carried out in 1773 by…
Today In Fact, 15 December
Active Citizens Day. Today marks the day when the citizens of the United States recognized…
Today In Fact, 14 December
Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart…
The rise of SA’s women entrepreneurs
By Paul Pereira For all the improvements in living conditions, income, health and longevity these…
Today In Fact, 13 December
Saint Lucy’s Day. The patron saint of the blind, was a young lass whose father…
Today In Fact, 12 December
There is an old seTswana saying which goes; “If you see the king’s cow on…
Today In Fact, 11 December
I am not sure why a person would build a pillar and choose to stand…
WHAM! Holiday Closure
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