Video: “Pay back the money” – EFF to Zuma in parliament

Police had to break up a scuffle between EFF MPs and ANC Youth League national task team member Braam Hanekom at Parliament on Thursday. The scuffle broke out shortly after National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete adjourned the House following the Economic Freedom Fighters’ refusal to leave after she ordered them out. The EFF members stood … Read more

CEOs who don’t take social media very seriously are an endangered species – top SA futurist

If you aren’t tweeting and checking in regularly to social media channels, and have delegated these roles to others, you are in danger of becoming a business dinosaur. That is the stark and compelling warning from Graeme Codrington, one of South Africa’s most sought-after futurists in global business circles, in this open letter to CEOs.  … Read more

Tips on how to reinvent your business, from SA’s ‘dealer in hope and optimism’

It’s easy to be worried about your business’s long-term sustainability when you look at the speed at which technology is putting companies and industries into intensive care. Don’t accept what looks like the inevitable, though, because often the biggest business ideas are to be found in the most challenging times – right under our noses. … Read more

On black women, property ownership and unconsciously discovering being privileged

Good blogging is always personal. The sharing of experiences. That’s why this is such an excellent contribution. When he’s not competing in the Iron Man, Richard Wright trains property agents. Mostly. Sometimes he gets asked to talk to other people who are interested in finding out more about property. Like last Friday when he was … Read more

Nhlanhla

Bloem SME redux

Nhlanhla

Digging deeper into Rob Smorfitt’s blog about racist SME conference in Bloem

On Wednesday, I published a blog by Dr Rob Smorfitt where he took a swing at the incompetent organisers of an event he drove hundreds of kilometres to attend. Nhlanhla Damoyi (pictured) suggested on my Facebook page that the blog left him with more questions than answers. So he posed them. Here they are – with Rob Smorfitt’s response.

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Laurene Powell

Steve Jobs Bio III: Who you marry makes huge difference

Laurene PowellWalter Isaacson’s book on Apple’s Steve Jobs gets one feeling it’s a pity biographies begin, as they must, with the subject’s early years. After the first 200 pages, many will be tempted to throw away the tome, tiring of a brattish Jobs who typifies much of what the rest of the world dislikes about American businessmen.

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