One thing I’ve learned since starting to write articles like this is that you can always find a relevant quote to support whatever it is… Read More »Don’t Try To Be Perfect. The Cracks Are What Allow The Light to Get In
Power, greed and pride – a toxic triumvirate driving decisions of bad leaders. Scratch the surface of a crisis and, predictably, individuals, groups or nations… Read More »A Crisis Or A Leadership Crisis
That’s how many times assassinated whistle-blower Babita Deokaran was shot just days after exposing suspected corruption to the tune of R850 million at Tembisa Hospital… Read More »Is South Africa Being Strangled by “Family” Ties
Recently, however, I read an article in the Harvard Business Review on the psychology behind unethical behaviour, highlighting that this isn’t the only question I… Read More »What Makes Good People Do Bad Things?
Hey McKinsey, Apologies Mean Nothing When The Damage Is Already Done
At last year’s COP26 meeting, several European countries pledged the equivalent of R150 billion ($8.5 billion) to help Eskom out of its quagmire. This money… Read More »COP27: Who will keep an eye on the money?
Imagine if democracy had brought freedom instead of corruption to South Africa.
Just in case you’ve been living on Mars for the past decade or so, and wondered about that dark patch at the bottom end of… Read More »Middle-Man-Scams Cost Money and Lives
The bad guys have fleeced billions in unpaid tax from the government. They now face the problem of what to do with all their ill-gotten… Read More »Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire – Is South Africa’s Illicit Tobacco Industry Finally Going Up In Flames?
It’s been a decade since 34 miners were unceremoniously gunned down on a hill by Lonmin’s platinum mine near Rustenburg, in what has gone down… Read More »Journalists Are Now The Thin Blue Line Between Us And Anarchy