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No mincing of words required, it’s tough in SA at the moment. Business confidence is low, employment is bleak, while the cost of living, forget documented inflation, is rising.
They may not have won but the joy and transcendence the Ndlovu Youth Choir radiated to the world, and self-remembering and pride they gave back to us as South Africans is worth infinitely more than victory status and money.
Chuck Stephens, Executive Director of the Desmond Tutu Centre for Leadership, lists nine things that are good about South Africa and turns to Bob Dylan to remind us to strengthen the things that remain.
Gary Hopkins tells Alec the difference between social entrepreneurs and their vanilla alternatives is that they measure success in terms of jobs created rather than profit generated.
It’s hard to see past our current hurt in South Africa, but we praise the Ndlovu Youth Choir – which made it through to the finals of America’s Got Talent.
Within a couple days of it being published on Biznews.com, Alan Knott-Craig’s think piece on how to live happily in South Africa was read by more than 50,000 people.
GG Alcock’s unique background – raised by anti-apartheid activists who lived their values by relocating to SA’s poorest area to live like locals – provided him with a very different thought process to his fellows.
At the invitation of Vivian Reddy, the central character in the R3.4bn Oceans development, Alec heard the real story. And got a lot more than he bargained for.
Amanda Maidman found herself in Ballito looking for an idea for a business when her daughter suggested ice cream, Scoop was started.
Senamile Masango, raised in a rural KwaZulu-Natal extended family of teachers, has become one of South Africa’s very few black female nuclear physicists.