Ubuntu in Business: Giving Back
Carrick Wealth believes the concept of Ubuntu should be taken much further and should not only apply to individuals, but also to business and the corporate environment
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Matthew Lester: My Open Letter to Mark Shuttleworth
SA needs the Mark Shuttleworth example of brains and energy as the catalyst to push internet education to viral status. We need to make it hip2B@school.
How Sanlam’s BEE deal made Patrice Motsepe another R8bn
Former President Thabo Mbeki was obsessed with creating Black business “role models”. Well and good. But instead of focusing on producing the kind of examples a developing country needs – bootstrapping, hard-working entrepreneurs who create jobs and build industries – he went for a quick fix. Whatever his intentions, Mbeki’s ideas encouraged Big Business to … Read more
More on Drift: Culture is created through things we do every day. Not much to be proud of right now, SA
Biznews blogger Alexx Zarr reflects the dark mood which many fellow South African citizens have right now. And reminds us that culture is created by the way we do things, the standards we ascribe to through our daily actions. He echoes concern surrounding our collective Drift, a worrying slide articulated by former Finance Minister Trevor Manuel, … Read more
What it means to be African – a 20 year old community member offers his perspective
South Africa is a complex society. Shaped over centuries by social engineers who “knew” they were right (the “know F-Alls”) all who occupy it today live with daily reminders of the consequences of such idiocy. We need to embrace complexity. Doing so allows each of us to realise how little we know. To keep an … Read more