BY GENEVIEVE VIEIRA
The plague of social media, it is everywhere and there is no avoiding it. Learn how to adapt your business to reflect the modern networked economy.
Millions of people access digital technology in their daily lives. With the rise of social networking sites, the internet has transformed into a powerful communication platform, allowing us [...]
The Social Media Revolution
Cowardly big business is failing our democracy
The Soapbox’s editor-at-large, ALEX MATTHEWS, argues that the failure of big business to speak out about the dangers of the Protection of Information bill is undermining South Africa’s democracy.
A New and Empowered Arab World
BY MISHQA ROSSIER
The latest spread of uprisings in the Arab world has ignited Tunisia, Egypt Libya, Bahrain, Algeria, Morocco, and Yemen in its wake. The empowerment and upliftment of the people in these countries is palpable, with many Egyptians claiming, after President Hosni Mubarak was overthrown, “Now I count…now I have dignity.”
“This uprising has completely [...]
Young Communist League Weighs in on Education
BY AKANYANG MEREMENTSI
For how long will we continue to blame the poor performance of our students in the country on the Department of Education alone and not the students themselves too? Aren’t they, the students, the ones learning, if not failing to learn?
But of course one would [...]
Threats of nationalisation scare Anglo Platinum
BY AKANYANG MEREMENTSI
One cannot help but suspect that the now recent reports of Anglo Platinum being advised in splitting its South African assets into two has something, if not everything, to do with the country’s ruing party’s (Africa National Congress) youth movement ANC Youth League’s talk of nationalising the Platinum Mines.
Business Day newspaper reported this [...]
Don’t blame West for Pakistan’s terror
BY DANIEL MORGAN
Former cricketer Imran Khan is pushing his own populist, anti-West agenda just as Pakistan’s president embarks on a tour of Western capitals. His opinion piece in The Times last week firmly lays the blame for Pakistan’s manifold terrorist problems and social ills at the door of the UK, the [...]
Should the SAA Board be Scrapped?
BY AKANYANG MEREMENTSI
One cannot help but wonder what is actually going on at South African Airways. The former SAA CEO Khaya Ngqula was paid R935m last year to terminate his contract by the very same company that is now suing him. Why?
The payment, according to media reports, include his R3, 831-million salary and ‘termination of contract benefits’ [...]
Some Oil for My Coffee Please…?
BY HYLTON TAYLOR
The environment is a topic which seems to bring out a number of emotions in most people. Because of this it is usually difficult to obtain any “facts” which haven’t been manipulated in favour of one side or the other, and so my facts come with a disclaimer!
As an engineer I [...]
Education’s financial black hole
BY AKANYANG MEREMENTSI
Professor Jonathan Jansen, Rector of the University of Free State, wrote a brilliant article in the Times newspaper yesterday in which he advised the Grade 10 “students to be sent to university before they finish high school”. And just who will pay?
This is one of the noble ideas thought by [...]
Ethnic nationalism breeds racism and causes divisions
BY HLANGANANI GUMBI
E.TV’s 3rd Degree show and post debate on 3rd Degree Plus on 25th May 2010 centred around racism and left one deeply saddened at the entrenched racism in our society. The show covered a number of incidents from the effects of the AWB Leader Eugene Terre’blanche murder, to the both previous and recent [...]
