Sunil Shah: Jacob Zuma’s ANC – in history books for all the wrong reasons
This Open Letter to President Jacob Zuma and the ANC takes a courageous approach, saying what many others are thinking but too afraid to express in public.
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Scott Dunlop – Those ‘Homer Simpson’ moments that make us human
We’ve all been left red-faced by a faux pas, minor or major, in the workplace and while we may have wished at the time that the earth would swallow us whole, the good news is that the embarrassment fades over time, as we come to learn that our capacity for embarrassment is one of the things that makes us human.
Design Indaba’s Ravi Naidoo – Entrepreneurs are often too impatient
Ravi Naidoo, founder of the Design Indaba Conference and Expo, tells us about the art and science of design, and its power as a catalyst for positive change.
Lucy Kellaway: Drop your Jawbones, Fitbits and other wearables – get a dog
As usual, the inimitable columnist has her own rather caustic opinion on the wearable craze. And as she tends to do, offers a sensible alternative.
Anthea Jeffery: ANC actions point towards 60yr old Freedom Charter – not the Constitution
Anthea Jeffrey argues that recent decision making by the ruling party tends towards the Freedom Charter of 1955 and not the Constitution of the country.
Hey Naspers, why’s Tencent in HK$750m rescue of bankrupt camera case maker?
What Tencent will be getting in $HK750m buyout is hard to figure. Mascotte these days mainly makes camera cases – its hard assets are worth just HK$28m.
Allan Greenblo: Opposite approaches – so which BEE “policy” is the ANC’s real one?
In this article Allan Greenblo talks about the conflicting BEE policies coming out of the ANC, and asks which is the right one: Paul Mashatile or Ngoaka Ramathlodi.
Lucy Kellaway: CEOs, ego-maniacs – one and the same, so don’t deny it
Like others with an over-inflated ego, the CEO concerned jabbered away in full voice while the one we’d come to hear battled to overcome the distraction.
Paul Mashatile: Pension Fund shareholder activism the key to SA prosperity
Rhetoric will not take SA forward. Instead, we require pragmatic interventions specifically aimed at deracialising our economy and brightening its prospects for sustainable growth.
Bloomberg View: SA, the appendage, apes Statism of BRICS leadership
Zuma and cohorts follow the Statism lead of the three most powerful BRIC countries – making SA an unfortunate, eager-to-please appendage to the anagram.