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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…
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…
