[COMMENT] “Maria Ramos appointed CEO of Park Advertising Group (NOT REALLY…)” … A similar news headline recently caught my eye: “Maria Ramos tipped to head up Eskom unbundling”. WHAT? I naively thought to myself. A bank CEO is going to manage the unbundling of a state owned enterprise? What does she know about electricity generation? […] Read more
In years gone by the adage "flat is the new up" was jokingly bandied about. Now it is cried out in desperation and frustration. Read more
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
