The Generosity of SA Companies in 2013
Trialogue senior consultant Shona Young on how South African companies stepped up to the…
A Time for Nation Building
A people in mourning has a profound opportunity to honour its Founding Father with a…
Today In Fact, 10 December
On this International Human Rights Day, two people died that offer us competing visions of…
Madiba and Myprodol
Sarah Britten is finally crowned… This was my view for much of today: I never…
Today In Fact, 9 December
John Milton, the English poet and author of “Paradise Lost” was born this day in…
A time for Nation Building
A people in mourning has a profound opportunity to honour its Founding Father with a…
Today In Fact, 8 December
John Lennon was cruelly murdered today in 1980 in New York, shot with dum-dum bullets…
Today In Fact, 7 December
Today in 1941 the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour. The Japanese launched 353 aircraft in a…
Today In Fact, 6 December
Saint Nicholas’ Day. Saint Nicholas of Myra, a Greek Bishop was known to put money…
Companies play ball with NPOs
In this season of giving, it is perhaps encouraging to note that the private sector…
Today In Fact, 5 December
Perhaps the greatest musical genius of our civilization died this day in 1791. Wolfgang Amadeus…
What difference does CSI make?
South African companies directed R7.8 billion in cash, goods and services to corporate social investment…
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…
Today In Fact, 4 December
Saint Barbara’s day. Gunners and artillery soldiers the world over recognize Saint Barbara as their…
Why are NGOs so ineffective?
“Why are NGOs so ineffective?” with Andile Ncontsa, Litha Communications CEO and former head…
Bits and bobs for the common good
As the festive season approaches, it is often a time of giving. With Strate Charity…
Today In Fact, 3 December
There were many persecutions against Christians in the Roman Empire. The last and most destructive…
Today In Fact, 2 December
John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave, John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the…
On Angry South African Expats
Susan Hayden went abroad, found the grass decidedly browner on the other side, and came home….
A Story of Kindness
Sarah Britten loses her parking ticket, and things unravel. But then she meets a mensch….
NPOs under the cosh – again
By Paul Pereira Here we go again. Every time that this country’s non-profit part of…
Today In Fact, 1 December
Today in 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to white man on…
Today In Fact, 30 November
Saint Andrews Day. The brother of Simon Peter, both of whom were fishermen whom Jesus…
Today In Fact, 29 November
Clive Staples Lewis was born this day in 1898. Famous for his fantasy book, the…
Africa rising and SA not?
The following is published by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, following presentations given to it in…
Today In Fact, 28 November
Today seems to be a very busy day for Mary, Jesus’ mother. It is the…
ZA Confidential editor John Fraser
ZA Confidential editor John Fraser on the state of our business community, what we need…
Today In Fact, 27 November
I was asked the other day whether it is possible for a Catholic to be…
A Plan Fanciful Enough to Consider
By Paul Pereira As South Africa gets ready for a long general election campaign that…
Today In Fact, 26 November
The founder of Harvard University in Boston was born this day in London in 1607….
Today In Fact, 25 November
In the years after the Second World War, the Dominican Republic, which shares an island…
Today In Fact, 24 November
Charles Darwin publishes his most famous book; “On the origin of Species” today in 1859…
Today In Fact, 23 November
There was a time in Mexico where just wearing clerical garb would get you arrested….
Today In Fact, 22 November 2013
Both my parents swear they recall clearly the day Robert Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas…
Today In Fact, 21 November
In 1905 an academic article; “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy…