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16 November 2021, Johannesburg, South Africa. HENLEY Business School Africa has set off on a three-week programme of graduations – conducted virtually for a second year in a row, because of the ongoing COVID-19 restrictions. Beginning with the MBA programme, which saw 201 graduates receive the business school’s flagship qualification on Tuesday November 16 and…
Daily Maverick, 16th November 2021 JON FOSTER-PEDLEY WE ARE AWASH in ideas but sadly, very little thought. Just as living in an era of the greatest access to information has rendered us incredibly uninformed, it would appear – anecdotally at least – that our cognitive abilities have suffered exponentially too. Just as everyone has an…
HENLEY Business School Africa dean and director Jon Foster-Pedley has been elected chair of the British Chamber of Business in Southern Africa. The chamber, which is run by its president Leon Ayo, is a business-to-business network promoting trade and commercial relations between the United Kingdom and Africa. It has strong links to the British government…
Dean Jon Foster Pedley, The Daily Maverick, 9th September 2021. No one in South Africa can be forced to have a vaccine. They have the right to refuse based on religious, constitutional or medical reasons. But businesses also have the right to only allow vaccinated people in the workplace. Most ethical leaders are guided…
THURSDAY 23 SEPTEMBER, 2021, Johannesburg, South Africa – More than 100 MBA students from Henley Business School Africa graduated at the University of Reading’s Henley Business School today. They had to do so virtually, because of the ongoing COVID-19 restrictions. Every Henley Africa MBA graduate has the option to graduate in the UK in September…
GRATITUDE Keloabetsoe Rampota was desperate to become a manager – but she didn’t know how. So, the relationship consultant at Auto & General went to the person who’d hired her to ask for advice. That person happened to be studying for the Post Graduate Diploma in Management Practice at Henley Business School Africa. “I had…
TENDAI “Beast’ Mtawarira is well into his MBA studies at Henley Business School Africa, as he transitions from being an icon on the sports field to hopefully attaining the same status in the boardroom. He hung up his boots after South Africa’s third rugby world cup win in Japan in 2019 and since then he’s…
DR SIBONGILE Kubheka doesn’t like not knowing. She’s got no patience for wrestling with the abstract; when something puzzles her, she goes out of her way to find out why. The latest thing that she discovered is why people won’t use cannabis products, despite their proven medicinal worth – and she did it as part…
IN A WORLD that is increasingly physically disconnected, Henley Business School Africa is using technology to reintroduce the human touch to a virtual world and bring its people together. Dubbed #HenleyEXPLORE by the three ‘explorers’ of the pilot team; Phillip Mabitle, Siqu Nsele and Louise Claassen, the business school is using virtual reality not just…
Jon Foster-Pedley WE HAVE spent more than 500 days in lockdown of one level or another. Our lives have been disrupted like none of us has ever imagined. Many of us have been vaccinated, some of us have even contracted COVID 19. But the truth is we will never be free of it. COVID…
