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Khoza – Pushing the ANC Over the Edge

Chairman of Nedbank [one of the top four banks in South Africa] Reuel Khoza boldly came out criticising the South African government on its leadership and direction challenging the country’s leaders in the Banks annual report, published at the end …Read Post »

COP17: an aerial glance over my shoulder – no chips in the way!

A cop is not just a COP… The whole Durban affair was bigger than people realise (and here I even exclude the myriad of side-events so many of us scrambled between)… It included the 17th time the Parties to the …Read Post »

Top Twitter News From WEF

The explosion of social media was evident at the World Economic Forum on Africa last week in Cape Town. Never before has so much news been relayed live from the boardroom as its happening. Below is a snap of the …Read Post »

From Vision to Action

From Vision to Action was the tagline of the 2011 World Economic Forum on Africa hosted in Cape Town in the first week of May. Over 1000 political heads, businessmen, activists got together for the meeting where the ‘next steps’ …Read Post »

Where Next for Global PR Companies?

SA managing director of global PR agency Fleishman-Hillard, Kevin Welman, recently presented to PRISA on global trends in public relations. As local MD of one of the few truly global PR companies present in SA he brought some fresh international …Read Post »

WEF in Tanzania More Than a Talk Shop

The World Economic forum in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania has proven to be more of a beneficial and productive exercise than the talk shop most of us here thought it would be. The quality of the sessions and the participants …Read Post »