With the SAWIP curriculum for 2014 almost drawing to a close,I cannot but help to ponder and consider where I’ll channel my energy next. Being the enthusiastic and purpose driven person that I am, it is second nature for me to continuously also be on the lookout for new prospects.…Read more
During Leonardo DiCaprio’s recent address to the UN General Assembly he made several pivotal simplistic yet thought provoking statements. DiCaprio lamented that “climate change is not a question of politics but a question of our own survival.” Differently phrased: the crisis faced by all humanity is so great that we can longer leave it up to the empty bigotry of politicians.…Read more
On Friday 19 September the latest crime stats were released by SAPS. The information conveyed to the public painted a grim picture of our shared South African reality and there is no way of justifying the continued increase of crime,…Read more
Although spring has supposedly started in the Southern hemisphere, the recent cold snap gripping the Western Cape is reflective for me of the type of dynamics that tend to play out during this time of year. With spring being nature’s equivalent of a new beginning,…Read more
The recent academic period has been somewhat taxing with several deadlines. Since we got back from the States I suspect that each one of our own lives as team memberswere immediately succumbed by diary entry upon entry. I can only speak for myself,…Read more
Don’t get me wrong. I love this country and more specifically its people. That being said, I cannot pretend all is well. As of late Stellenbosch has been victim to an upsurge of crime. Over this past weekend one of the student houses,…Read more
Too often we are so fixed on the current grim realities. It is not hard to understand why. Every day we are inundated with news casts of the continued political tensions in the Middle East,…Read more
Our public discourse has shifted and moved from the celebratory tones of April, touched on the election madness in May, remembered the youth in June, July seemed to have passed us all by, and now in August we are focused on the plight and triumphs of women in our society.…Read more
Part of the objective for this blog is also to allow me to share some of my personal day to day experiences. I therefore decided to use 7 August 2014, a sun-soaked-beautiful-winters day as a sample portrayal of my daily life.…Read more
One of the biggest tasks for a modern leader is the ability to grasp the position and circumstance of others. This essentially means the ability to discover and develop mentalities that are not uniform, but rather to try and understand each other and our differences sufficiently so that ultimately some degree of compatibility becomes possible or at least discussable.…Read more