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“He’s an ordinary guy with an extraordinary passion and commitment. That’s the message for me – I know there are many others like him, just as implacable in their purpose and as eager for that opportunity. Because Themba has The MBA, I hope this will be that opportunity to ignite so many others who never had the chance.”
“He’s an ordinary guy with an extraordinary passion and commitment. That’s the message for me – I know there are many others like him, just as implacable in their purpose and as eager for that opportunity. Because Themba has The MBA, I hope this will be that opportunity to ignite so many others who never had the chance.”
All Africa Entrepreneur of the Year
Thembalihle Baloyi
Discovery Insure, Founder and Executive Director
Foster-Pedley said he hoped the graduates would take a leaf out of Gordhan’s hat and serve as active corporate citizens with an unshakeable moral compass and sense of purpose to fight institutionalised greed, corruption and state capture so that all South Africans can share in the country’s wealthy, and create a better life for their families and communities.
The new African heroes are people who take a risk, whether it be personal, political, professional or financial, in order to build something they believe in for the good of others. South Africa has a story to tell. It’s a heroic story, but it often doesn’t feel that way. That’s probably because we’ve forgotten the…
This kind of theft, whether public money or the deposits of the most desperate or the SOE and municipality funds that could have been deposited in the bank to cover the original theft, matters to all of us – because it normalises an attitude that this kind of theft isn’t a real crime like sexual…
As we move through the process of the State Capture inquiry, it can still be difficult to understand even the effect of blatant high-level corruption on the average family in South Africa. How can we begin to have conversations about what is fair remuneration for CEOs, or the difference between exploitative and enabling business practices…
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a 35-strong group of mostly advanced economy countries, has a cool tool with which you can compare stats about its members. The Better Life Index (BLI) is an attempt to move conversations about national wealth aware from the overly broad metric of GDP, and instead focus on…
Mindfulness helps strip away the filters we have put up around us in a structured way
Profit is not intrinsically bad, but profit for profit’s sake alone is not just bad it’s unimaginably damaging.
