A Healthier Continent Could get Better
Of all the things we can measure when looking at how society is faring, surely…
Of all the things we can measure when looking at how society is faring, surely…
Making music in SA with Donovan Thatcher… [jbutton size=”medium” color=”blue” link=”http://paulgpereira.podomatic.com/entry/2013-10-29T01_25_59-07_00″ newpage=”yes”]Listen Here[/jbutton]
Today in 1949 a remarkable man, George Gurdjieff died in Paris. This man with large…
Even old men can be revolutionaries. Angelo Roncalli was just meant to be a filler…
Born this day in Swansea in 1914, Dylan Thomas was a drunk and a womanizer…
Nikos Kazantzakis, the author of Zorba the Greek died today in 1957. His mature spirituality…
Of cardigans and balaclavas. On this day in 1854, at the Battle of Balaclava during…
Nobody likes prisoners and nobody wants to be one. But the state of a country’s…
Today the United Nations was officially founded whith the ratification of its charter by the…
Mole Day is celebrated by chemists between 6.02 AM and 6.02 PM on this day…
Jennifer Adams of Rays of Hope, a developmental and welfare NGO, tells of working…
The end of the World was supposed to happen today in 1844. The followers of…
Trafalgar Day. Today in 1805, the Battle of Trafalgar was fought in which the British…
It’s starting again … Black vs White … war. But it’s not surprising, because elections…
John Dewey was born today in 1859. Dewey was one of the founders of pragmatism,…
The patron saint of Oxford and Oxford University died this day in 727. Saint Frithuswith…
Andy had been in labour now for 18 hours and the light Essex rain still…
Today in 1814, nine people drowned in the London beer flood on Tottenham Court Road….
I once had a friend, Debbie at University who was studying medicine. After some years…
National Youth Orchestra MD Sophia Welz on how this national treasure is thriving… [jbutton…
The day of the Tojan Horse incident. The police and the soldiers hid in wooden…
Corruption, poverty, a weakening economy … the media is full of this news and us,…
Today in 1066, William the bastard became William the conqueror at the battle of Hastings….
Nicolas Malebranche died today in 1715. This physically disabled priest developed a philosophy that God…
I know it’s Columbus day and all that and I know that Spain marks it’s…
A day after his 74th Birthday Paul Kruger, the President of the old Transvaal Republic…
Comms presentation with GIBS and WHAM! It’s tough enough getting a social enterprise off the…
It is 22 years since the reunification of Germany, just under 20 years since South…
South Africa has built proportionately the world’s biggest welfare state in just 20 years. We’ve…
SA Institute of Race Relations CEO-designate Frans Cronje on how this venerable research organisation will…
International Mental Health Day and World Day against the Death Penalty only seems to make…
Jacque Derrida died today in 2004. Among the most influential scholars of our age, Derrida’s…
The Zulu musician and songwriter, Solomon Linda died today in 1962. He should have died…
In Southern Africa, traditional healing is initiated by the healer experiencing a painful ancestral possession…
We humans are a funny lot. Faced with potential catastrophe, we fret that the sky…