Governance re-imagined: Is politics without parties possible?
Sortition offers inclusiveness and creates a diverse, non-partisan government and it asks citizens to take responsibility for their governance
Zanzibar: Paradise meets purgatory
Instagram beaches, but the misogyny, poverty and remnants of slavery can sour the tropical food in your mouth
It’s not poor management, it’s poor leadership
Attuned leadership, is guided by its ethics and virtues but has self-agency and makes choices informed by their own communities’ felt needs
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South Africa, which lags behind on mercy killings, should take another step and legitimise suicide
The ambit of every person’s personal liberty should be expanded to include the freedom to decide on the timing of their death
Lest we forget: South Africa needs to remember our war dead
The act of remembrance is the recognition of the futility of war and mourning the loss of men and women whose future ended too soon
Compassion needed as poverty threatens our social fabric
Monumental disparities raise the risk of epic upheaval in South Africa and globally
The end of humans
The Anthropocene or modern human era could be humanity’s last – though the Earth will survive us – unless we act to stop global warming