2022-08-12Reverend Jan Scholtz It is a broad concept with singular interpretation and literary refers to any structural adjustment loans and SALs provided by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank to countries that experience economic crises. View more
2022-08-19Reverend Jan Scholtz Traditionally, there are two alternative industrialisation strategies viz export promotion and import substitution industrialisation strategies. View more
2022-09-02Reverend Jan Scholtz The economic and other relations between developed and developing countries established and maintained over centuries can be fully comprehended within the metropole – satellite pattern. The developed countries are the metropole, while the developing countries are satellites orbiting around the metropole. View more
2022-09-09Reverend Jan Scholtz We are at a time when many people in the Third World and outside are raising fundamental questions about the pattern of development, which has taken place in the last three decades. View more
2022-09-16Reverend Jan Scholtz On September 1985, the Institute for Contextual Theology (ICT) in Johannesburg produced the Kairos Document to give a theological response to the moral and spiritual crisis caused by the brutal repression, which characterised the Apartheid state of South Africa. View more
2022-10-07Reverend Jan Scholtz Today is tomorrow’s yesterday. I took a walk down memory lane at a concert celebrating the music of the Swedish supergroup of the 1970 – 80s. I came away dripping with nostalgia and a maudlin longing for those days when I was half as old as now. View more
2022-10-17Reverend Jan Scholtz Two of the spiritual giants of the early church were Tertullian and Augustine. Tertullian was regarded as one of the best Christian thinkers of his day (c.160 – c225), just as Augustine was for his (354 – 430). View more
2022-10-21Reverend Jan Scholtz Back in the day, during my studies at the University of Zambia (UNZA), we had one discussion on what it is to be a male. View more
2022-10-31Reverend Jan Scholtz Technology can be considered as all the processes that are adopted in transforming inputs into finished products. Various processes can be used to transform the same type of inputs into finished products. View more
2022-11-04Reverend Jan Scholtz Different Christians have different understandings of and policies governing marriage and divorce, and these have evolved. View more
2022-11-11Reverend Jan Scholtz Commonwealth heads of government at the Ohawa meeting in 1973 endorsed the decision taken in Lusaka in January 1973 by ministers concerned with youth matters to establish a Commonwealth Youth Programme. View more
2022-11-18Reverend Jan Scholtz Today, I am tackling a matter geared towards primarily Christians, especially as 90% of the population profess Christianity. View more
2022-11-25Reverend Jan Scholtz In many rural communities in Africa, marriage and child bearing are considered the most appropriate roles for young women between the ages of 15 and 24. Studies have revealed a strong connection between early age of marriage and low educational and health status of the individual and family marriage. View more
2022-12-02Reverend Jan Scholtz When I am speaking to assembled executives and employees of a corporation, I often startle my audience by suggesting that the key to their success is in working less, not more. Relaxation is just as necessary to success as work. It is perhaps that hypothetical perfect state of existence where all of our parts and functions are in perfect order. View more
2023-01-20Reverend Jan Scholtz You are just settling down to start studying. You have planned exactly what you would like to cover during your study session this evening, and are feeling highly motivated and focused. View more
2023-01-27Reverend Jan Scholtz One of the most common complaints in the hectic world we live in is being “too busy!” Often, people are simply too busy dealing with day-to-day life to find the time to pursue their dreams. View more
2023-02-03Reverend Jan Scholtz Education is a term which describes the process by means of which we come to realise our capacity for human action – that is to say, the capacity which makes it possible for us to act in a manner which appropriately distinguishes us from other objects or beings. View more
2023-02-24Reverend Jan Scholtz This is the first instalment of a series of articles on the ‘Sanctity of Human Life’. This week’s article focuses on Abortion. Abortion is the removal of a fetus from a womb, thus terminating a pregnancy. View more
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