Most of us will remember lessons in how to be either female or male. We were told, no my girl, don’t play in the mud. That’s not for girls. Or no, my boy, fairy wings are only for girls. I was given an incredible poster by Andreas Spath about how so much of our gender […]
2011
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What to look for in a technology partner
When getting your digital media campaign off to its best possible start: Choose right With new online, mobile and social innovations emerging almost every day, digital marketing initiatives must draw on best-of-breed partners for every aspect of the project. No single developer or agency can deliver all outcomes. There have been enough project failures to […]
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But will Walmart sell boerewors?
I don’t know if I’m looking forward to shopping at Walmart. As a man I can shop for about 20 minutes max. After 20 minutes my heart rate goes up, my chest contracts and I start bumping into things praying to high heaven to keep me focused so I can get the hell out of […]
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Software implementation – the real questions to ask
There are two good reasons to avoid any software implementation process that will take more than two to six months (at most). The first is cost: IT consultants don’t come cheap and the business case for your fancy new software can start looking shaky very quickly once you add in all the hidden costs. The […]
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When Muslims rule the world
Osama bin Laden is not dead. There is good reason why his body was cremated and tossed into the ocean. As we all know, or should know, this was not only to insult devotees of certain segments of the broader Islamic faith; it was to ensure there was no DNA trace. No proof. What was […]
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To all the tea girls I have loved before
There’s a problem with the tense of a popular, communist freedom song which goes “my father was a garden boy, my mother was a kitchen girl, that’s why I am a communist, a communist, a communist”. Sometimes “socialist” is used instead of “communist”. In this song garden boys and kitchen girls are relegated to the […]
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Trevor Manuel and the IMF job: It’s a structural issue
I want to make a small contribution to the discussion around the (im)probability of Trevor Manuel being appointed as managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Parenthetically, this piece was originally written a week ago and was sent back to me last Friday for shortening. So, things might have happened in the meantime which […]
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African solutions to African problems
By Jacqueline Muna Musiitwa When engaging in African development discourse, I have failed to understand the popular phrase “African solutions to African problems”. It forces me to question what and who is African? Is it all mankind by virtue of humans originating from Africa or someone who can generally be traced to the Negroid race? […]
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Filling the trough so the pigs can scoff
By Craig McKune As we sent this week’s front-page story — on how to rip off the government through state leasing — to the printers, a successful BEE property developer called us. “I just want to give you a bit of perspective,” he said, before reading out a list of state leases in commercial buildings: […]
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Five top contact centre trends
Multichannels The age of the one-way communication street — where brands controlled the manner in which their customers communicated with them — has passed. Today’s customers want to communicate using a channel that suits them and that could be Facebook, Twitter, Skype, video calls, SMS, email, fax or regular phone calls, depending on the demographic […]
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The fight against child trafficking
Communications technology, such as the internet and mobile phones, certainly make life easier: from online banking, to staying in touch, to news and weather on the go and all the other benefits that have become such an integral part of our daily lives. Unfortunately, the same technology has also made it easier for criminals to […]
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The abuse of political power
Power is abused, probably a million times a day, the world over. A man who abuses his bodily power to subjugate a woman for his (power) pleasure, or who abuses her economic dependence on him to get what he wants, are just some of these. Not that women cannot, or do not, abuse their (sexual) […]