When you are a parent who has to shell out huge amounts of university tuition fees for your children, it is not always easy to focus on your own dreams. When I am not paying tuition I am paying for other things related to the children. I am…

Some of them are too much, I am telling you.I got into a taxi the other day — the driver is a friend of mine — and he asked me to kindly allow him to drop some teenage girls who needed to get home urgently before dropping me…

This is a partnership. Locally, the formation and rules regarding the running of this organisation are governed by the common law whereas in South Africa a Partnerships Act was passed to regulate this form of business entity. By definition, a partnership is a legal relationship arising from an…

The time for that national debate is now, not after the elections. When change arrives, we would want  to make sure that it arrives not as a hostile storm but a pleasant wind of change for all of us regardless of political affiliation, race or tribe.I do think…

Chilling Out with Grace MutandwaI think it is a tragedy that in a country where the majority of people are aware of what constitutes human rights violations, we fail to express outrage at the fact that cattle have an elevated status to that of women and children. A…

But when it comes to the area of libido, amorous propensities we get into a slippery slope. We are told the reduction in HIV prevalence/incidence rates in our country is because of increased condom use among other things.  But I daresay, condom use is still nowhere near where…

 The nature, character and intention of power-sharing is nearly always employed as a strategic intervention in relaying political conflicts towards peaceful settlement and eventual normalcy.However, the road to such an aspired end has been littered with complex insinuations, posturing and power-flexing antics that have caused an evasion of…

It was therefore the expectation that the Upper House, as the Senate is often called, would reflect the values of maturity and informed debate — tackling differences brought about by ideological diversity in a manner that is exemplary to the country at large.The Upper House, based on the…

 A participatory restructuring culture helps to transform the public enterprises into an effective results-oriented long-term coalition by reconciling the conflicting interests. The ILO is promoting socially sensitive enterprise restructuring. This approach is in line with latest developments in the development discourse, where top down “one-size-fits-all” traditional approaches are…

Various stakeholders, from policymakers, politicians, business and labour have all called for increased investments in skills development in view of the evident skills flight that happened over the past decade.Technical and vocational skills training and development has been identified by the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education as…