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Far too many of us are prepared to speak of a tax revolt. When we do, we merely feed the creation of a lawless society. We need to be the change we wish to see, we cannot expect others to do the right thing when we continue to do wrong. On 1 May 2019, when…
IOL Article, 17 July 2019, Kevin Ritchie MELODY Xaba had always wanted to meet Johnny Clegg, especially when she won a scholarship in his name two years ago to study for her MBA. Now though it’s too late. Clegg succumbed to his five-year battle with pancreatic cancer on Tuesday afternoon 16 July 2019. “I was…
26 June 2019, Johannesburg, South Africa. HENLEY Business School Africa has the most MBA scholarships of any business school in Africa, having awarded 30 this year alone. “It’s one of our competitive advantages, like our family-friendly MBA or our acclaimed MBAid programme,” says dean and director Jon Foster-Pedley. “One day, we hope that we won’t…
26 June 2019, Johannesburg, South Africa. HENLEY Business School Africa has enrolled its biggest ever MBA class this year – 329 students across five intakes, up from 260 last year. For dean and director Jon Foster-Pedley, it’s an achievement that needs to be correctly understood to be properly celebrated. “This is not about us competing…
26 June 2019, Johannesburg. SOUTH Africa needs good leaders like never before. If we’d had them, we wouldn’t have lost the 10 years – and maybe squandered the next generation’s birth right – to state capture, aided and abetted by corporate collusion. If our country had enough leaders brave enough to speak truth to power,…
Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address covered every aspect of our society, including the increasingly precarious state of the environment, and it provided five specific targets for the next 10 years. President Cyril Ramaphosa has a dream for South Africa, almost Wakanda-esque in its scope, complete with bullet trains and a brand-new, purpose-built post-apartheid…
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…
