A unique tuition model, afford-ability, and the relevance of learning materials in the African context remain lynchpins of the Unisa Graduate School of Business Leadership’s (SBL) programme offerings.
Edwin Tjale’s appointment as CEO of BSN constitutes a major step towards the realisation of the vision that SA develop partnerships with First World institutions to develop the growth of managers in the new SA.
Anyone who has ever taken up an iron and swung vainly at that infinitesimal ball will know that golf was invented by dour, unrelenting Puritan masochists to remind themselves of the awfulness of life and the pointlessness of endeavour.
Never has a post-match post-mortem been as shockingly frank as that offered by Graeme “Biff” Smith after South Africa’s cricketers leapt lemming-like into flaccid ignominy at Lord’s on Saturday. Pursing what would have been his lips if he had any, Smith confessed that “the guys all gave 100%”.
Whatever happened to good, old-fashioned embarrassment? Where today is that wicked pang that kept generations of slobbery emotions in check and prevented stupid people from doing stupid things in public?
As Mark Twain once said to all aspiring writers,"Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for." But what happens when some wretched specimen, sawmill-fodder to his core, is offered a pile of cash to write his auto-biography?
Advertising works, as the poor fools who bought the new Candice single can bear grim testimony to. Apparently South Africa’s advertising industry is one of the best in the world, but frankly that doesn’t mean a whole lot when you look at some of the competition.
How do pole-vaulters do it the first time? Do they have the pole glued to their hands before being shot out of a small cannon to give them a taste of the glamorous new life that awaits them?