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Daily Maverick, 18 June 2019 Opionionista – Jon Foster-Pedley STATE Capture, as we know it, took 10 years to fully metastasize into the kleptocracy that is currently being unpicked in the various Commissions of Inquiry. Like a cancer, we know too now that this wasn’t a single aberration, but rather a Hydra-like syndrome; from…
5th June 2019, Johannesburg, South Africa. HENLEY Business School Africa is pleased to announce the inaugural winners of its brand-new Sol Plaatje scholarship for media professionals. They are: Thabiso Thakali, news editor of the Sowetan newspaper and Pauli van Wyk, an investigative journalist from the Daily Maverick, says Henley Business School Africa dean and director…
4th June 2019, Johannesburg, South Africa. HENLEY Business School has been ranked fourth in the UK and 20th in the world for its open and customised executive education – moving up three places in the authoritative Financial Times rankings from last year. The FT survey is recognised as the most reliable global indicator of the…
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa announced his new cabinet on Wednesday night (29 May 2019) – an hour later than promised and almost four days after his inauguration as the country’s fifth president at Loftus Versfeld rugby stadium the Saturday before. The inauguration has been rightly lauded as PR coup, reminiscent of Nelson Mandela’s inauguration…
Cynics will decry Cyril Ramaphosa as an incrementalist more devoted to party than country. But like the heroes’ journeys of yore, South Africa’s return to its rightful place as Africa’s Rainbow Nation will be a trudging journey up the hill, of determination and grit, without any of the fanfare and instant gratification beloved of the…
Saturday Star Article, May 25 2019 KEVIN RITCHIE KAHN Morbee went back to university this week – to finally, well officially, learn about the business side of the music industry. He’s been in the game for the last two decades: the Parlotones, which he started with school mates from Roodepoort’s West Ridge High School turns…
Henley Business school Africa (Henley Africa) has commissioned 12 up-and-coming artists to transform the school’s campus into a space that is more reflective of African culture and Henley’s identity as the top business school in Africa. Henley Africa has partnered with social enterprise The Coloured Cube, through which 12 artists have been selected from 80…
Daily Maverick, 16 May 2019 South Africa stood at the crossroads as the country went to the polls on 8 May 2019. Now with the ink barely dry on the official results, it is clear that the country has averted the Venezuela-like doomsday scenario foretold by so many pessimists. This is South Africa though and…
The Pretoria News, 15 May 2019 THE elections are over; the analysts have picked over the entrails of the campaigns and the new Members of Parliament are packing for Cape Town. The president and his speech writers are preparing for his state of the nation address that will chart his party’s vision for us for…
The Star, 4th May 2019 ON Wednesday May 8 this year South Africans head to the polls again. Will they even vote? If they do, will they even think before they make their mark in anger? Will you? It’s a very real question; there’s a lot to be enraged about with the tsunami of revelations…