The Covid-19 period has shown all of us how severe our country’s socioeconomic issues are. A lot of these are very close to my heart and include: child-headed households, teenage pregnancy, alcohol and drug abuse, the breakdown of nuclear…
On Wednesday night I happened to tune in to etv Channel 194 and ended up watching Checkpoint. The issue that was covered were the killings of 11 elderly people by an unknown person or persons in a very short period of time at Ezingqolweni…
As an educator in the Komani area I felt filled with the reminiscence of legends who played a role in education. Among them was Pleasure Zola Busakwe (uB). We used to call him “B” at Toisekraal Village (Trust, efam’ephakathi,…
My CEO at Group Africa Marketing and I always had this conversation about the importance of content. The idea that ‘content is king’ is not new – there is now a greater emphasis on developing compelling content than ever. I think this…
I’ve learnt a few tough lessons in the last decade of running my own business. One of them is the fact that, as much as I have a core business where I provide PR services because it’s the skill that I’ve mastered over two decades and can…
South Africa is truly a country full of possibilities. Anything can happen on any given day. These next few days to the municipal elections in 16 days’ time will turn out to be the most interesting in our young democracy. There is…
In my PR degree years, I was never taught how to write. Yes, I was taught the basics of how the media works, but not how to craft a story. Because of my passion for writing and my persistence, I was lucky enough earlier in my…
Little did I know when I saw a Facebook post by the Enoch Mgijima Municipality that they would be opening a sports stadium at Lesseyton that I would be walking into an intense media storm. I have been keeping tabs on the progress of that…
Gender-based violence (GBV) has long been one of the worrying factors in South Africa. This is evident from the disturbing stats that emerged during the Covid-19 lockdown period last year and the more recent ones. According to the…
In keeping with the heritage theme during the Heritage Month of September, I thought I should ponder about names people give others or to their children whether theirs or somebody else’s. Names can also be given to non-humans like dogs,…
These days, it seems like the conversation that we have as small business owners when we check up on each other is how our businesses are impacted by the uncertainty brought on by COVID and the slow impact of the vaccine as well as the…
Now that all the legal challenges are a thing of the past, it is now full speed ahead towards the local government elections on November 1. The local government elections, compared to the national and provincial ones, have the greatest…
I thought I should look at this topic because as an entrepreneur I am not only talking to other business owners, but to myself as well. I am a PR professional that has been profiling executives of different companies for 21 years and…
When I googled the meaning of the word, this is what I got: “Heritage is the full range of our inherited traditions, monuments, objects, and culture. Most important, it is the range of contemporary activities, meanings and behaviours that…
Last year, during our regular administration meetings with my business associates we had a look at what kind of financial products we would need to cover ourselves and create security for our businesses. We had to look at business…
Recently, I was thinking about a socio-economic topic that would be suitable to close off Women’s Month as this sensitive issue that is very close to my heart, the disturbing statistics for teenage pregnancy in Gauteng came out. These…
As we close yet another Women’s Month we are still reeling from another senseless murder of a woman by a man. What makes this one even more shocking is the gruesome manner in which Aluta Pasile, the murder accused, went about things after…
This week, I’ve decided to write another entrepreneurship story as a follow-up to last week’s one which focused on the importance of women supporting each other in business, because I felt it was essential to highlight more gender…
Do you feel, that as a parent and a pupil, the education department and, by extension, school managements, have a proper handle on the Covid-19 situation in the schools? Do you have absolute confidence that they have a well-considered…
Cogta minister Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma proclaimed on August 3 that October 21 was the date for the local elections to take place. She did this, fully aware of the recommendation of the Moseneke Inquiry set up by the IEC to investigate…
