Prof. Alain Tschudin, PhD Executive Director, GGA SADC Registered Psychologist (HPCSA) 27 March 2020 Dear partners, colleagues and friends, On behalf of our chairman, directors and our team, I would like to share some reflections and solidarity from GGA on the global...
Africa: ethical business A long-term approach to doing business anywhere relies on nurturing relationships, and perhaps more in Africa than elsewhere By Alain Tschudin Ten years ago, many organisations engaged in Corporate Social Responsibility, or CSR, as an add-on...
Sustainability. It has become all too easy to subsume the cure for the world’s ills under this throwaway word. In its own right, the word refers to the ability to be maintained at a certain rate or level, or to avoiding depletion of natural resources to maintain an...
One of the first Psychology 101 lectures that I attended at university was on the theme of nature versus nurture. Our professor asked us to weigh up deterministic, biologised influences on psychological development against the social, cultural and environment factors....
In this Africa in Fact edition dedicated to culture, Fred Khumalo paraphrases our mutual friend Mondli Makhanya who, in the midst of a debate with a right-of-centre interlocutor, asserted that, “I am a South African and that’s where it ends”. Much as this position is...
"Young, dumb, broke, high school kids.” These lyrics from a contemporary pop song often heard on repeat do not exactly inspire confidence. On the contrary, Africa’s youth, while they are obviously young, are bright and “woke”, to use another trending word. That is,...
Welcome to the first edition of Africa in Fact for 2018 – and the first to appear on shelves at selected bookstores. The topic is natural resources, which is also one of our core programmes at Good Governance Africa. We adopt a broad definition of resources, but our...
African governments and their formal business sectors often hold up the informal sector as the nemesis of formalised growth and organised development – yet for many citizens on the continent (and elsewhere), informality is a lifeboat in increasingly challenging...
The role of presidents is currently one of the hottest topics in Africa, hence the theme of this edition of Africa in Fact: “The Presidential Issue”. Nelson Mandela once said, “In my country we go to prison first, and then become president.” Recently, however, there...
Welcome to this “Looking East” edition of Africa in Fact on Africa-Asia relations. Last year, members of the GGA team paid a visit to Asia, and more specifically, to the Far East. While transiting Hong Kong, I was struck by the intersecting pathways of its former...
Prof. Alain Tschudin, PhD Executive Director, GGA SADC Registered Psychologist (HPCSA) 27 March 2020 Dear partners, colleagues and friends, On behalf of our chairman, directors and our team, I would like to share some reflections and solidarity from GGA on the global...
Africa: ethical business A long-term approach to doing business anywhere relies on nurturing relationships, and perhaps more in Africa than elsewhere By Alain Tschudin Ten years ago, many organisations engaged in Corporate Social Responsibility, or CSR, as an add-on...
Sustainability. It has become all too easy to subsume the cure for the world’s ills under this throwaway word. In its own right, the word refers to the ability to be maintained at a certain rate or level, or to avoiding depletion of natural resources to maintain an...
One of the first Psychology 101 lectures that I attended at university was on the theme of nature versus nurture. Our professor asked us to weigh up deterministic, biologised influences on psychological development against the social, cultural and environment factors....
In this Africa in Fact edition dedicated to culture, Fred Khumalo paraphrases our mutual friend Mondli Makhanya who, in the midst of a debate with a right-of-centre interlocutor, asserted that, “I am a South African and that’s where it ends”. Much as this position is...
"Young, dumb, broke, high school kids.” These lyrics from a contemporary pop song often heard on repeat do not exactly inspire confidence. On the contrary, Africa’s youth, while they are obviously young, are bright and “woke”, to use another trending word. That is,...
Welcome to the first edition of Africa in Fact for 2018 – and the first to appear on shelves at selected bookstores. The topic is natural resources, which is also one of our core programmes at Good Governance Africa. We adopt a broad definition of resources, but our...
African governments and their formal business sectors often hold up the informal sector as the nemesis of formalised growth and organised development – yet for many citizens on the continent (and elsewhere), informality is a lifeboat in increasingly challenging...
The role of presidents is currently one of the hottest topics in Africa, hence the theme of this edition of Africa in Fact: “The Presidential Issue”. Nelson Mandela once said, “In my country we go to prison first, and then become president.” Recently, however, there...
Welcome to this “Looking East” edition of Africa in Fact on Africa-Asia relations. Last year, members of the GGA team paid a visit to Asia, and more specifically, to the Far East. While transiting Hong Kong, I was struck by the intersecting pathways of its former...
