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.
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Opinion – How to impeach a president … Ramaphosa case puts new rules to the test in South Africa
President Cyril Ramaphosa faces possible impeachment in the country’s parliament over the illegal stashing of thousands of US dollars at his farm in 2020. This is not the first time there’s been a threat of impeachment of a president in post-democratic South Africa.
Opinion – If Christians in church could be Christians outside
If Christians in the church could be Christians outside we could not live in such a dark world, where jealousy, gender-based violence, corruption, hate, self-serving leadership, gossiping, obsessive love for earthly things, egocentric, self-righteous, bossiness, boastfulness, vengeance and nepotism are entangling the society.
Opinion – Economic productivity subdued by SOEs’ ineptness
The performance of SOEs should be marked by organizational effectiveness, efficiencies in their operations and enhanced productive capacity in order for them to play their meaningful role of facilitating the expansion of developmental economies of scale that could contribute to infrastructure development and economic growth and job creation.
Opinion – Contextualising self-governance through service delivery
In his documentary, ‘The Africans: A Triple Heritage” Ali Mazrui (1986) contends that one can teach other people how to speak the English language, still one can teach them how to practice Christianity, but one cannot teach them how to govern themselves, that they must learn themselves.
Opinion – Problematic Section 61 remains unsettled
My default mode is that any legal matter that divides a Tribunal/Court must be heard by a further platform.
Know your civil servant – Always evolving auditing
People generally have the idea that performance auditors are out there to catch managers doing stuff they are not supposed to do.
Sinvula, Grootfontein tussle ruling in January
The Gr o o t f o n t e i n municipality claims the suit filed against it by its suspended CEO, Kisco Sinvula is an attempt to cover up serious allegations against him.
African Tantalum workers bemoan retrenchments
Workers of the African Tantalum Company said retrenchments effected on them was unfair and have left them deserted