OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT RAMAPHOSA – JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED
President Ramaphosa, I write to you as a concerned citizen, woman and mother, to thank you for your reminder to gender-based violent...
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MAR
- Nov 10
- 4 min
WHAT HAVE WE LEARNT?
WHAT TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE IS NEEDED NOW? Our founder, Aurelio Peccei, after selling millions of copies of The Limits to Growth, learnt...
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MAR
- Oct 12
- 9 min
NELSON ROLIHLAHLA MANDELA – A GLOBAL ICON
South Africa is blessed with a few iconic figures who dedicated themselves to the liberation of our country from iniquitous extractive...
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MAR
- Oct 11
- 7 min
HUMANITY IS CALLED TO AN ECOLOGICAL CIVILISATION
“We will prosper together in pursuit of life, or we will perish together in pursuit of money. The choice is ours,” David Korten, ...
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MAR
- Sep 11
- 5 min
HOW MANY WAKE-UP CALLS DO WE NEED TO OUTGROW THE COLONIAL CITY AND GOVERNANCE MODEL THAT IS IMPRISON
Our government has over the last 30 years failed to heed far too many wake-up calls for us to expect better from them. They do not...
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MAR
- Jul 24
- 3 min
THE HUMAN GAP: WHAT IS IT? WHY DOES IT MATTER?
The term ‘The Human Gap’ was coined by the founder of the Club of Rome, Aurelio Peccei, an Italian who was the CEO and Chair of Fiat...
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MAR
- Jun 27
- 11 min
Ubuntu: The Dream of a Planetary Community
In the 1970s, I participated in a student uprising with many others and we confronted our complicity in our oppression. We reclaimed our...
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MAR
- Apr 18
- 4 min
COMPASSION NOW!
Why NOW? Just look around you: Pain and suffering is everywhere due to planetary emergencies created by us human beings who have lost the...
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MAR
- Mar 30
- 5 min
THE POWER OF LANGUAGE BEYOND WORDS
We are often not as conscious as we should be about the power of the words we use in everyday language. We also use words that have...
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MAR
- Mar 30
- 5 min
REINVENTING HIGHER EDUCATION: NEW HUMANS, NEW SOCIETY, NEW HIGHER EDUCATION
REINVENTING HIGHER EDUCATION: NEW HUMANS, NEW SOCIETY, NEW HIGHER EDUCATION Thank you for including me in this immensely important 13th...
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MAR
- Mar 30
- 4 min
A TRIBUTE TO AN UNSUNG HERO
We are here to honour an Unsung Hero. But I would like to start by paying tribute to my younger sister, Ingrid Jones, a woman of...
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MAR
- Mar 30
- 3 min
LEADERSHIP TO TURN AROUND OUR COUNTRY
Nothing short of a complete overhaul of the government and the governance model would do to turn our failing State into the great society...
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MAR
- Mar 30
- 2 min
AFRICAN HISTORY AND IDENTITY
AFRICAN HISTORY AND IDENTITY Africa's history and identity as the cradle of humanity and the first human civilisation suffers from...
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