I believe that what we need is isivivane—an old African tradition which obligated every traveller passing a certain spot to add his or her stone to a pile of stones. In doing so, every traveller became a part of isivivane with solidarity, common purpose and identification with a good cause. The tradition of isivivane originated …
For weeks, I have been watching the reality-tv show called My 600 pound Life. I’ve been fascinated by the stories of overweight people participating on the show. At first I couldn’t understand why. How does a person get this big? And these people, who are hardly obese, surrounding them and that live with them: Why …
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Any branding and marketing exercise must stand on the back of good solid innovation in the product that is being sold. The time invested in the process of discovery, research and tweaking of product builds strong brands, that can be resilient even in the face of the toughest competition. Branding and Marketing Won’t: Cut-Short the …
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Stokvels are an investment instrument born and bred in the township. The earliest cases of the stokvel-kind of association are from the 1910s in the gold mines of Johannesburg. The success of the stokvel movement is largely undocumented. It is indeed a story of our history we have yet told. A story of social bonds, …
The Creative Spirit looms large over all African ways of life! But as soon as we speak of “growth”, we go back to the same old European formulas of industrialization. Art, Creativity then becomes merely entertainment, fitted with the power to provide a ‘magical’ escape. Serious business, being in the office or factory, is what …
While we watch the battle of the giants unfolding for reduced mobile termination rates in South Africa, an even bigger thirst-that-cannot-be-quenched is for Internet data.[1] The people want more and more data. No one is yet able to respond to this demand convincingly. But perhaps jumping on the naming-and-shaming bandwagon between government, ICASA, and business …
After weeks of planning and meticulous attention to detail, 20 August 2011 was upon us, the event that has been on everyone’s lips had arrived. People filtered in, intermittent at first, as if signalling everyone’s trepidation of what was about to unfold. Eventually, droves of patrons entered the doors of Momo gallery just in time …