Harvard Business Review have just emailed me the story that is being run by most major French publications about how women on management teams have fared better than men in the current financial crisis.
Elle, Le Monde and many other publications h...
Loaded Minds is a concept expressed by a band, Spirit of the West, about the increasing violent responses and calls for violence that has ingrained violence as a viable response. It is the same thinking that claims that it is acceptable that the cost...
We've always suspected those tawdry health warnings on a packet of fags were rather dumb, but never knew why. Well, it seems that, contrary to discouraging smoking, they actually encourage lighting up by stimulating the nucleus accumbens -- the cravi...
Any university student has a sad story to tell about the death of student politics, the inefficiency of modern day SRCs and the general mediocrity of South Africa's youth politics.
They also harbour strong views about one Julius Malema who is fast...
Jacob Zuma is at it again, attempting to suppress the freedom of expression. He has instituted a lawsuit against the cartoonist Zapiro for about R7-million in response to the cartoon depicting him as raping the figurative Lady Justice. It is not beyo...
Geez. The life of a police spokesperson, I tell you. I thought I was getting a cushy desk job. I should have known better when I was the only one to stick up my hand when they asked for volunteers. Now I sit here taking the heat for everyone else’s...
At the time, vegetarian Chinese food was new to me. The closest I thought a Chinese got to vegetarianism were those bowls of blackened fish heads some like to suck and crunch on while the fish’s eyes dolefully disappear into the slurping mouths.
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So I'm watching the news last night and I see that the case involving Pretoria High Court Judge Nkola Motata is still dragging on. What I found even more intriguing is when the newsreader mentions, in passing, that this whole mess emanates from an ac...
In 1996, a South African court formally ended the 33-year-old marriage of Nelson and Winnie Mandela. More than anything else he did, it was President Mandela’s behaviour during this time that left the most lasting impression on me. At no stage did ...
During my first visit in August 1989 to Geneva, Switzerland, I was amazed by the seriousness with which the local Swiss obeyed the laws. I was standing on a street corner at around midnight on a warm summer’s evening. There was no traffic, but as...
