South Africans are experiencing an epidemic of reckless behaviour where the thoughtless, careless and irresponsible are getting away with too much.
The South African news climate was always heavy with stories of irresponsible leadership, but latel...
There's a scene from Little Miss Sunshine that has stayed with me for the longest time. If you've seen the movie you'll remember it instantly. Miss Sunshine is of course the film about a family on the verge of a nervous breakdown, and the scene in qu...
Isn't it high time the South African government understood how to enhance our gross national happiness?
South Africa is one of the unhappiest nations on this earth. We're not as miserable as Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia or Angola, but we come ...
Eskom's management mess comes as no surprise, given the state of the operation, regulatory rot and the leadership crisis at other parastatals.
The leadership crisis that's shaken Eskom is symptomatic of the deep rot that lives within that organisa...
War. That's the fighting talk coming from Minister of Higher Education Blade Nzimande as he uses the intense media spotlight on the ANC's National Health Initiative (NHI) to rabble rouse in his role as SACP general secretary.
Making capitalism the...
As communications technology becomes more complex and regulatory processes more dense, Icasa is in more of a mess than ever.
Walking into the Sandton offices of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) tells you more ...
What SA needs is new breed of ethical entrepreneurs that will help rebuild our country.
It's a sad day when former struggle stalwarts say the new enemy is greed and corruption. Speaking at a recent memorial service for fallen Umkhonto weSizwe ...
That fine line that divides good and evil.
When I was young, the product of Calvinist schooling, I thought good and bad people where two separate things. That the good guys fought the bad guys at some proverbial high noon in a shoot-out betw...
Why did graft become just another line item at a world class company?
“I know what this is about. I was expecting you.”
According to the New York Times, those were the first words that Reinhard Siekaczek uttered when he opened the door of h...
One out of a hundred people that you work with will be a psychopath.
In short:
- Psychopaths aren’t just killers
- Workplace psychopaths leave a trail of destruction
- How to spot workplace psychopaths
- CEOs should be screened to weed out p...
Mandy de Waal is a columnist, writer and journalist. A former broadcast journalist, de Waal is writes for Noseweek, ITWeb, MarkLives, Brandchannel and MarkMagazine. She is part of the judging panel of the Discovery Health Journalism Awards and the MPASA PICA Awards. In her spare time she writes poetry and fiction.
Read her blog Artificial Intelligence: Articles, essays and riffs about new media, media, branding, economics and current events.
