So much of what is happening in SA feels the same as a frog in a pot, with the temperature increasing each month, and no one jumping out or doing anything different. Read more
The South African lexicon and news has been filled with a bunch of new phrases over the past few years. These include “monopolies”, “foreign capital” and “local first” which are all “symptoms” of a consumer market kicking back against what appears to be the product of a global economy. A global economy can be defined […] Read more
I was tempted to write this article in the same style of that famous joke book “Everything that men know about women”. This massively thick book, when opened, displays a multitude of blank pages. Pretty much what men do know about women, I suspect. I think anyone who looks to predict the future here in […] Read more
I’ve been doing a lot of reading over the past few months. I’m not much of a fiction reader, and prefer the factual stuff, and besides, history was always my favourite subject at school, so reading up about people and periods really tickles my fancy. I recently read about the Renaissance period, and couldn’t help […] Read more
OPINION: Wow how fast the world changes! This fact was made more evident once again when a few days ago, my mentor and friend, Harry Herber, gave me a copy of the March 1998 Advantage Magazine. (Remember it? Courtesy John Farquhar?) Paging through the magazine, some interesting things popped up. This particular issue was 96 […] Read more
Chris Botha agrees print media is going through a very tough time but he believes there is a lot that can be done to keep it afloat. Remember Kodak? The company used to make cameras and camera film. Yup, and it even invented the digital camera in 1975. So when Sony first launched commercial digital […] Read more
