Dr Mamphela Ramphele

President Ramaphosa, I write to you as a concerned citizen, woman and mother, to thank you for your reminder to gender-based violent...

WHAT TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE IS NEEDED NOW? Our founder, Aurelio Peccei, after selling millions of copies of The Limits to Growth, learnt...

South Africa is blessed with a few iconic figures who dedicated themselves to the liberation of our country from iniquitous extractive...

“We will prosper together in pursuit of life, or we will perish together in pursuit of money. The choice is ours,” David Korten, ...

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...

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...

In the 1970s, I participated in a student uprising with many others and we confronted our complicity in our oppression. We reclaimed our...

Why NOW? Just look around you: Pain and suffering is everywhere due to planetary emergencies created by us human beings who have lost the...

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...

REINVENTING HIGHER EDUCATION: NEW HUMANS, NEW SOCIETY, NEW HIGHER EDUCATION Thank you for including me in this immensely important 13th...

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...

Nothing short of a complete overhaul of the government and the governance model would do to turn our failing State into the great society...

AFRICAN HISTORY AND IDENTITY Africa's history and identity as the cradle of humanity and the first human civilisation suffers from...