A Healthier Continent Could get Better
Of all the things we can measure when looking at how society is faring, surely…
Making music in SA
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Today In Fact, 29 October
Today in 1949 a remarkable man, George Gurdjieff died in Paris. This man with large…
Today In Fact, 28 October
Even old men can be revolutionaries. Angelo Roncalli was just meant to be a filler…
Today In Fact, 27 October
Born this day in Swansea in 1914, Dylan Thomas was a drunk and a womanizer…
Today In Fact, 26 October
Nikos Kazantzakis, the author of Zorba the Greek died today in 1957. His mature spirituality…
Today In Fact, 25 October
Of cardigans and balaclavas. On this day in 1854, at the Battle of Balaclava during…
Our MPs crowd our jails
Nobody likes prisoners and nobody wants to be one. But the state of a country’s…
Today In Fact, 24 October
Today the United Nations was officially founded whith the ratification of its charter by the…
Today In Fact, 23 October
Mole Day is celebrated by chemists between 6.02 AM and 6.02 PM on this day…
Alexandra’s Rays of Hope
Jennifer Adams of Rays of Hope, a developmental and welfare NGO, tells of working…
Today In Fact, 22 October
The end of the World was supposed to happen today in 1844. The followers of…
Today In Fact, 21 October
Trafalgar Day. Today in 1805, the Battle of Trafalgar was fought in which the British…
The Future of South Africa
It’s starting again … Black vs White … war. But it’s not surprising, because elections…
Today In Fact, 20 October
John Dewey was born today in 1859. Dewey was one of the founders of pragmatism,…
Today In Fact, 19 October
The patron saint of Oxford and Oxford University died this day in 727. Saint Frithuswith…
Today In Fact, 18 October
Andy had been in labour now for 18 hours and the light Essex rain still…
Today In Fact, 17 October
Today in 1814, nine people drowned in the London beer flood on Tottenham Court Road….
Today In Fact, 16 October
I once had a friend, Debbie at University who was studying medicine. After some years…
Preserving a National Treasure
National Youth Orchestra MD Sophia Welz on how this national treasure is thriving… [jbutton…
Today In Fact, 15 October 2013
The day of the Tojan Horse incident. The police and the soldiers hid in wooden…
A Miracle Nation We Should Never Forget
Corruption, poverty, a weakening economy … the media is full of this news and us,…
Today In Fact, 14 October
Today in 1066, William the bastard became William the conqueror at the battle of Hastings….
Today In Fact, 13 October
Nicolas Malebranche died today in 1715. This physically disabled priest developed a philosophy that God…
Today In Fact, 12 October
I know it’s Columbus day and all that and I know that Spain marks it’s…
Today In Fact, 11 October
A day after his 74th Birthday Paul Kruger, the President of the old Transvaal Republic…
Convincing others
Comms presentation with GIBS and WHAM! It’s tough enough getting a social enterprise off the…
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…
Taking over the SAIRR
SA Institute of Race Relations CEO-designate Frans Cronje on how this venerable research organisation will…
Today In Fact, 10 October
International Mental Health Day and World Day against the Death Penalty only seems to make…
Today In Fact, 9 October
Jacque Derrida died today in 2004. Among the most influential scholars of our age, Derrida’s…
Today In Fact, 8 October
The Zulu musician and songwriter, Solomon Linda died today in 1962. He should have died…
Today In Fact, 7 October
In Southern Africa, traditional healing is initiated by the healer experiencing a painful ancestral possession…
Globalisation – confounded by success
We humans are a funny lot. Faced with potential catastrophe, we fret that the sky…