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Dr Armand Bam is the head of social impact and senior lecturer in business in society at the University of Stellenbosch Business School
Mzansi is many things: unequal, violent, frustrated, politically volatile and economically strained. But it is not a war zone. Dissatisfaction with governance, fears about crime,…
As we commemorate freedom, a familiar chorus returns: that South Africa has too many ‘race laws’, that redress has gone too far, that equality now demands forgetting
International Women’s Day should not merely be a day of applause. It should be a day of reckoning. A day on which we examine the invisible labour that sustains our institutions.
The brutal assassination of Babita Deokaran was not an isolated crime. It was a symptom. A loud alarm in a system where corruption is not criminal aberration but an ecosystem
The truly astonishing part of Musk’s interview was his insistence that apartheid did not oppress Black people because he personally did not witness any oppression
Keeping quiet, denial and lack of courage in leaders enable genocide and corruption
The rugby team’s victory over the All Black was way more than a record win; it was a symbolic one too
Generosity without focus is sentiment. Strategic charity, urgent and directed, is transformation
Employment isn’t possible without movement, education requires reliable, safe transport and autonomy, dignity and safety are non-negotiables
Julius Malema and Donald Trump are alarmingly similar – charismatic ‘leaders’ with questionable character whose interventions appeal to emotions but won’t fix the economy
South Africans’ history taught us the cost of inhumanity and that it was defeated by resistance, so we must not be indifferent to those building inequality in the world
Beneficiaries crying oppression are eating at the table apartheid set for them — and complaining when someone else is finally offered a chair
We debated the reasons the Afrikaners left their culture, friends and family – fear, uncertainty, disillusionment. But life in South Africa continued as usual
Freedom is not about slogans or votes, it is something we must make together by our actions, in a country inured to violence and a world where self-interest rules.
The future is ours to shape. We can ape the aberrations of the world’s loudest countries or we can make South Africa a model of justice, inclusion and interdependence
Honesty, ethics and morality should be cornerstones for those in public office
Why should we applaud those giving away a fraction of their fortune; the same people who have a hand in creating such inequities?
