2009

Since the end of slavery and the period during the fight by Africans for independence from colonial rule, Africans had been imbued by a renewed sense of consciousness of their being and blackness. The struggle for liberation from the shackles of colonialism was primarily premised on the innate struggle for psychological emancipation from mental slavery, […]

Submitted by Paul Deppe Discrimination in the workplace in some or other form has plagued South Africa since the early settlers inhabited the Cape in the 1600s. Colonialism ensured that the white population enriched themselves while depriving the indigenous population of social, political and economic power. At the turn of the 20th century the English […]

Blame-shifting is self-destructive energy. Carl Niehaus is obviously a desperate man. Desperate men do desperate things, therefore the gush of confessions coming out of his mouth needs to be closely checked. For instance, already Rhema Church has denied ever lending Carl Niehaus about R700 000; a spokesman claims the church only stood as surety on a […]

A friend (cyber friend might be more appropriate) made an interesting comment on Facebook about Tokyo Sexwale recently. Sexwale once accused Cope of using old people to get votes. “I thought Tokyo said they don’t use old people to win votes!” said my friend. A few days ago the ANC marched and paraded Nelson Mandela […]

The race to own the social profile Companies, brands and start-ups are waking up to the fact that there’s a really easy way to disintermediate service providers. Own the social profile, not the mother brand. Look what Mint.com is doing in the US financial industry as a good starting point. With Facebook Connect and Google […]

Forget Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, if an SAA flight had taken off from La Guardia and ploughed straight into a gaggle of geese, then the last thing our mob would have needed to do was ditch the plane in the Hudson. No, your average SAA crew seems to carry enough goed on board any given flight […]