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Regional institutions produce a great deal of language and comparatively little that can be independently verified against a fixed date. This month's elevation of digital connectivity within SADC's ten-year regional plan is a useful case study in that gap:...
It is possible for a fashion entrepreneur to create and grow a brand like Mr Price in today's South Africa, and Africa at large. One must just go back and study the “simples” that the founders of Mr Price created. The success story of Mr Price is one of relating with...
It is possible for a fashion entrepreneur to create and grow a brand like Mr Price in today's South Africa, and Africa at large. One must just go back and study the “simples” that the founders of Mr Price created. The success story of Mr Price is one of relating with...
Every regional policy story eventually reduces to a documentary question: what, exactly, does the paper trail support, and what is inference dressed up as fact? SADC's adaptation of its regional tourism programme for post-pandemic recovery is a useful case study...
The only public, contemporaneous record of what SADC's heads of state and government actually decided on 17 August 2020 is a five-page communiqué numbered in thirty-three short paragraphs — no annexes, no financial figures, no named work programmes. For an...
A regional bloc has just adopted a ten-year strategic plan, and the authoritative public record of that adoption, at the point of writing, consists of a single institutional pillar page rather than a full published text, an implementation timetable or a set of...
Regional summits generate a predictable volume of communiqués, vision statements and strategic plans, and a predictable difficulty for anyone trying to establish, months or years later, exactly what was agreed, by whom, and on what evidentiary basis. The Southern...
It is important to stay relevant as a Marketer in the Digital Marketing Age in Africa. I graduated with my marketing degree close to fifteen years ago and attained most of my experience around that time and I can tell you that most of our treasured knowledge from back...
South Africa needs more Black Owned Banks. Everyone wants a bank that provides Cash, Convenience, and Community as banking services. Most banks achieve the first two and are very hazy on the Community part as that creates a relational complexity – emotional banking. ...