2008

Too late to be part two of the “IQ is dead” piece The recent intense discussions about leadership on Thought Leader speak volumes about our diverse understandings of what leadership really is. There seems to be as many different views about what leaders are expected to be and do as there are readers out there. […]

There are a couple of classic cop-outs, in relationships, life and every day. The beauty of them is, of course, that sometimes they are true (painfully, heartrendingly true), but most often they’re just the description of a rut in which we find ourselves. Here are a few of my favourites: I’m just not ready to […]

South Africa is a beautiful country with warm and spontaneous people who run a real risk of boarding a runaway train fuelled by fear and driven by resentment and ambition; fear of an uncertain, ever-changing future, spinning circles around a violent present occasioned by a tormented past. Surviving while squatting on someone else’s property, being […]

It is time that we asked the question whether the non-racial struggle has, ironically, delivered its anti-thesis of black racism. In a strange way, there is an unconscious disposition among privileged black Africans — now called the “black diamonds” — to be unkind in a racist way towards fellow South Africans who happen to be […]