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Greatest AfricansAfricaJoburgSouth AfricaGreatest AfricansI am a great believer in looking to others for encouragement and motivation. At times how people hustle as well as their accomplishments set the tone that is needed to motivate and help us to work harder. However what I am not such a greater believer in, is mimicking another person's life, so much so that you end up losing who are in t...
The Reality of Ramaphoria: From Dawn to Sunset? Last week Thursday President Cyril Ramaphosa gave his fifth State of the Nation Address (SONA). For the first time since 1994, the SONA was without the fan fair and fashion that colours the most important political speech of the year. Moreover, the need to ensure with covid-19 regulation ...
The half-European New African Not long ago a prolific public intellectual not only pointed out why social cohesion cannot be attained in South Africa but called for an examination of the state of Africanness, whatever that is.
My friend asked me for my views on the raging debate about freedom of expression, especially of the media. I told him that this time I have nothing to say. I prefer to keep my silence. Yes, I have chosen silence because I do not want to mix my voice with the voices of hypocrites. And I mean what I say on this about the people who ar...
Often than seldom I journey through the path of trying to both unpack as well as understand the concept of kindness. In my two minutes of adulthood, I have grown very fond of exploring the depths of this matter. As such there is always a deeper longing deep within me to understand why other people fail to be kind towards others when ki...
Some projects fail not because the idea was not good enough but because the idea needed a helping hand to bring it to success. At times we do not fail because the task was unachievable and in other instances we do not hit a brick-wall be...
We, as a country, have a serious problem with national morale.Everywhere you look – be it at individual, collective or organizational level -you can sense that ‘something is wrong.’ No doubt, over the last 26 years since the release of N...