Monthly Archives: September 2017

Impressions can be deceiving, but has Cyril got the guts?

“You don’t get a second chance to make a first impression”. Recent events here have, however, turned this old caution on its head.   Who would have thought, for example, that South Africa’s top capitalists would mourn the firing in March of finance minister Pravin Gordhan and his deputy Mcebisi Jonas –two top line Communists? [...]

By |2017-10-23T14:30:38+00:00September 24th, 2017|South African Politics|0 Comments

Powerful lessons on what it means to be a leader

Two encounters with remarkable women revealed a glimpse of a future in a "better South Africa in a better world", to adapt the slogan of our Department of International Relations and Co-operation. First was an interaction with the first Hispanic woman ever appointed to the US Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor. Sotomayor, an appointee of Barack [...]

By |2017-09-20T08:31:13+00:00September 20th, 2017|South African Politics|0 Comments

Dlamini-Zuma’s course of strategic ambivalence leads to extinction

Two versions of her speech at Gibs, in text and orally, show little regard for dire state of public accounts. Presidential hopeful Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma’s recent speech at a high citadel of capitalism — the Gordon Institute for Business Science — caused much controversy. In her actual remarks Dlamini-Zuma bemoaned the "dissonance" between the government and [...]

By |2017-09-08T14:11:47+00:00September 7th, 2017|Jacob Zuma, World Politics|0 Comments

Hacked emails? Cyber dirty tricks? Security deals with Russia? Join the dots …

Our security services and minister are fast friends with their Russian counterparts. Just on Monday the two countries signed a co-operation agreement on "cyber security" The Sherlock Holmes story The Silver Blaze gave us the famous tagline of "the curious incident of the dog in the night". The curiosity in that tale of the kidnapping [...]

By |2017-09-08T13:06:11+00:00September 6th, 2017|Jacob Zuma, World Politics|0 Comments
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