2+ hour, 32+ min ago   (501+ words) To remain silent while the public sphere degenerates into a flowing sewer of political sludge is to enter into collusion of a special type with the odour. Johannesburg is not an inconsequential municipality. It is arguably the commercial capital of…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (371+ words) I left an event at the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (Mistra) with an uncomfortable thought. Not about whether South Africa has made progress on women. We have. Not about whether gender inequality remains deeply embedded in our society. It…...

2+ day, 55+ min ago   (455+ words) South Africa has spent centuries trying to decide what a coloured person is. The colonial state classified them. Apartheid institutionalised them. Democracy retained their categorisation. Political parties court them. Census forms count them. Yet the question of who they are…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (458+ words) “Culture fit” has been treated as the cornerstone of traditional workplace values and one of the deciding criteria for recruitment, with organisations seeking people who understand their values and can easily integrate into existing teams. But for a country as…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (436+ words) Before the G20 summit in Johannesburg last year, President Cyril Ramaphosa uncharacteristically — and rather pompously — lashed out at his comrades who run the city about the preponderance of potholes. Such gaping craters, he complained, were a blight on the country and…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (768+ words) Femio founder Monalisa Zwambila wants women to understand what their biology costs them, reclaim some of that money and ultimately give policymakers hard data on the price of gender inequality. A new mobile app designed to track the true financial…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (692+ words) The Governing Body Foundation (GBF) is urging parents to take school governing bodies (SGBs) far more seriously and think hard about which candidates to back for membership of the entities. “Often when you go to those elections, parents don’t even…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (598+ words) More than 70 years after some 20,000 women of all colours marched to the Union Buildings, the isiZulu chant “You strike a woman, you strike a rock!” reverberated again in Pretoria — only this time the refrain was uttered at a much smaller…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (590+ words) At 29, I walked into my first audit committee meeting as a partner. I was the only person of colour, the only woman and the youngest in the room. The person closest in age was in his 50s. Nothing in the room…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (308+ words) If there ever was a candidate for full-blown canonisation in the US it’s sure to be one Ms Dolly Rebecca Parton. There are many, many points in her favour and I fully intend to submit this application to Pope Leo…...