Having businesses is a critical good.
Then SA companies do a lot more – for human rights By Paul Pereira Although…
Ignore the good news at our peril
No other country with such a young median age has as much wealth as SA….
We are not helpless. Go gently.
By Tsepo Monaledi The profound advice of De Beers enterprise development head Tsepo Monaledi to…
Quick tips if you’re starting a CSI career…
By Paul Pereira I’d already had good careers in political analysis and journalism when I…
Informal assumptions defying reality
Informal assumptions defying reality “Kasinomics” author and township marketer GG Alcock lifts the curtain a…
Why Oscar’s more important than Nkandla
By Paul Pereira There’s been some gnashing of teeth, and even whole TV and radio…
Bobby Kennedy, and My Many Brushes with Greatness
By Tony McGregor Bobby Kennedy jabbed…
Field Bands mourn a South African heroine
Retha Cilliers (4 June 1956 – 11 February 2014) The death of Retha Cilliers, aged…
Put Zille to the Sword
By Paul Pereira Helen Zille is trying to pin the fiasco of her presumptuous elevation…
SAIRR wins American Chamber of Commerce Leadership Award for 2013
On behalf of the American business community in South Africa, the American Chamber of Commerce…
NPOs under the cosh – again
By Paul Pereira Here we go again. Every time that this country’s non-profit part of…
Africa rising and SA not?
The following is published by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, following presentations given to it in…
Illiberal to oppose redress
The Citizen’s editor-at-large Martin Williams says that pompous high priests of liberalism are themselves betraying…
CSI comms gone very, very bad
The ad industry hit the headlines for the wrong reasons this week and, at times,…
Ideas for SA from Speedy Gonzales!
Jonathan Katzenellenbogen suggests we look to Mexico for clever ways out of the low-growth-high-unemployment South Africa…
This Lady’s for Turning
Anthea Jeffery says the DA is u-turning on race-based employment law. She thinks that while…
Convincing others
Comms presentation with GIBS and WHAM! It’s tough enough getting a social enterprise off the…
Patty Hearst, Robert McNamara, and the lefty SA university
By Douglas Racionzer. The most money I ever raised was 100 million US dollars in…
Utter merda
That pesky Echo MD Peter Langschmidt demands accuracy in research and in claims about how…
People who drive change
Kerryn Krige says we need more people wanting social change in ways that make economic…
Did Mandela Work for Nothing?
Unless we build an all-encompassing middle class soon, the political miracle we like to harp…
Whites should learn the grammar of blackness
Twitter does funny things to former cabinet ministers. Just before midnight on Sunday, Tito Mboweni…
#WISE UP! The daily wisdoms of Kgethi Setati-Phakeng
You wouldn’t normally expect young South Africans to be in awe of a national leader…
Reconcile Street Names
As controversy deepens in Amanzimtoti over naming a street for an MK operative, ANC councillor…
Our World Keeps Getting Better
America’s Business Insider has published graphs on US and global human progress of these last…
Big lobsters and Kangaroo biltong
I often chat to Ashraf Garda on his Sunday morning media and marketing show, and…
Journos playing Mugabe’s game
The only way to claim Zim land “reform” success is to ignore facts, says Roy…
The romance is over – it’s party time
The romance of South African politics is over. A party can no longer grow on…
Iqbal! New houses, new readers!
Alameen Brendan Templeton gives some free media publishing advice to new Independent Newspapers boss Iqbal Surve……
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,…
SA and that Time cover
Alex Perry’s story about Oscar Pistorius and South Africa’s culture of violence has inevitably attracted…
Will Agang take off?
So Mamphela Ramphele, South Africa’s last great hope if we’re going to break the impasse…
FNB’s basic comms misstep
If any single corporate brand exemplifies the best of South Africa, FNB must come close….
Rhino need better friends
Giving a cause publicity is always good, right? Wrong. Last week, the National Press Club…
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