Barbara Erasmus
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Barbara Erasmus looks at the ABCs of crime fiction, South African style.
A trumpeting success
There’s an air of expectation in the Johannesburg City Hall as the audience settles down prior to the arrival of the evening’s star attraction, Sergei Nakariakov. An attractive…
Taking stock of future growth
It’s 8.30am on a damp, Saturday winter morning in Cape Town, but still the lecture room at Share Direct is full. The people in the audience don’t look like stockbrokers in suits…
MBA probe: Overdue or over the top?
Two months ago Minister of Education Kader Asmal announced a probe into MBA programmes. But academics and business leaders are divided in their opinion regarding the nature of…
Gender issues ‘an afterthought’
Cultural diversity is close to the heart of Stella M Nkomo, a professor at Unisa’s Graduate School of Business Leadership, who has studied the role of race and gender in the…
Business schools for Africa
"An adrenaline-charged frontier." That’s how Professor Nick Binedell, director of the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), describes the heady challenges currently facing…