I am in Berlin, looking down from a boardroom at where the ‘wall’ that separated East and West Germans once was. The wall is now destroyed; monuments of this wall can be seen in isolated areas around Berlin: but it still makes me think: how is it that the idea of...
I am looking at a photo of my just over one year old grandson on holiday with my children; they’re on the beach. Merely playing on the beach is, however, not good enough for him; he is continuously walking, even crawling away from them towards the sea; on his own, not...
During the Second World War the ultimate victory for the Allied Forces would have been the conquering of Berlin. If Berlin was conquered, the war would have been over. That is exactly what happened; when Berlin fell to the Allieds, Nazi-Germany surrendered. I can...
ANC General Secretary Gwede Mantashe said over the weekend that the ANC must “… quickly restore investor confidence”. That sounds good, but if the ANC really wants to do this, they must start right at the top. The rot has its origin right at the top of the ANC...
yesterday, somebody, I respect very much encountered a huge disappointment; he took quite a blow, something he did not deserve. The person I am talking about is a hardworking man, a man with high ethical values, a person I trust. But bad things also happen to good...
At the end of apartheid and the arrival of democracy in the early 1990’s, we all thought it was the end of race being the determining factor of our society. How disappointing to realise that it was not. For a few years we celebrated the ‘rainbow’ nation; but not...
