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THE rather crude image of a political tent with one’s adversaries outside pissing in, or alternatively inside pissing out, is attributed to US President Lyndon Johnson. In South Africa, following the 29 May elections the […]
Glenn Orsmond, Crash and Burn: A CEO’s Crazy Adventures in the SA Airline Industry (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2024) FOR nearly thirty years I was regularly told that higher education needed to follow a business model. […]
‘THE constant rolling of the vessel coupled with my intense occupation in the wheelhouse with the screen of the Gee machine soon brought me to the extremes of sea-sickness. I felt absolutely dreadful and was […]
Chris Pappas and Sandile Mnikathi, Saving South Africa: Lessons from the uMngeni Municipality Success Story (Johannesburg: Pan Macmillan, 2024) IT is hard to imagine two people less alike in appearance. One is white, short and […]