The financial services sector has had ample time to effect transformation but has chosen not to.The demographics of the economically active population in South Africa are 78% African Blacks; but White employees occupy 66.5% of top management positions.Directors and shareholders must be visibly supportive of diversity initiatives and be seen to walk the talk.Is it…
Robyn Porteous writes that one of the reasons white people struggle to acknowledge racism is because of the way it is framed in their minds. Often, discussions of whiteness and racism only inspires defensiveness. Eyesights sharpen, energy rips through the body, and the impulse arises to oppose whatever comes next - without considering if it makes…
Personally and in the public sphere, South Africa is ill-equipped to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic as the country heads towards it peak, writes Angelo Fick. The Covid-19 global pandemic is testing us, and we are not faring well. Not thus far.As individuals, organisations and communities, we are still having to figure out how to make…
The Covid-19 pandemic has changed our way of life and with it has brought some mental challenges. Leonard Carr writes that this is also a time to re-evaluate and to grow. The world and our lives as we knew it have, for the past few months, been in the process of undergoing sudden and radical change. Old…
The Covid-19 pandemic has not only revealed flaws in the way the ANC governs, but has also shown the DA and EFF's true colours, argues Ivor Sarakinsky. In a strange way, early lockdown was so much easier to handle. The threat was clear. The message was coherent. We all braced ourselves for the storm.When it didn't…
2 min read ONE THING I appreciate about Mack Weldon is that the brand doesn’t limit itself to just one category of menswear. Sure, it makes some of the best underwear we’ve ever tested, but that’s only scratching the surface. From everyday T-shirts and henleys to cozy sweaters, outerwear, workout gear, and accessories, it’s practically
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has declared an end to a dual outbreak of E. coli and Salmonella traced to alfalfa sprouts and the seeds used to grow them. The outbreak traced to Everything Sprouts of Minneapolis, MN, and Berlin Seeds of Millersburg, OH, was unusual because it included more than one pathogen
For 20 years I have been saying some version of the same thing about leafy greens and cattle. Water runs downhill. Cows poop. Lettuce grows at the bottom of the hill. Now FDA’s own scientists have put real numbers on it, and they deserve credit for doing it. A new paper in the Journal of Food