Tag: religion

In the coming weeks, South Africans of various faiths will observe significant religious holidays, including Easter. The tension between religious beliefs and workplace demands can cause issues for both employers and employees. These issues arise especially if job requirements are not explicitly and clearly stated in an employment contract.

What is the true story of our lives - and what should it be? In his newest revolutionary offering, We Who Wrestle With God, world-renowned clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson shares profound insights. He guides readers through ancient accounts of rebellion, sacrifice, suffering, and triumph. These stories have shaped the very foundations of the Western world, offering timeless lessons for modern life.

Siphokazi Jonas is a weaver of seemingly discordant worlds; growing up in an Afrikaans dorpie, attending an English boarding school, and going on annual holidays to a village emaXhoseni during the transition years of South Africa’s democracy made this a necessity.

Open your mind, heal your relationships, and connect across divides with this groundbreaking guide to deep curiosity from internationally-recognised curiosity expert, Scott Shigeoka.

Maria is a young woman raised as a Jehovah’s Witness in South Africa, and this book documents her experiences of gender victimisation, sexual abuse and cover-ups within the church, as well as her eventual ‘escape’ from its doctrines and control.

Culture and religion are interwoven into the fabric of society and play a critical role in sharing important values in homes and communities. For many, culture and religion define how they see and understand the world and provide the guidelines and norms underpinning their behaviour.  

Despite South Africa’s employment equity legislation, the biases and discrimination that characterised the ‘old South Africa’ still exists in the hearts and minds of many people. Such unfair discrimination could include, but is not limited to, discrimination on arbitrary or subjective grounds such as race, gender, family responsibility, religion, age, disability, opinion, and trade union affiliation.

Did you know that your beliefs may be protected by labour laws? But how far do these protections extend – would you be protected for climate change denialism, veganism or being a flat earther?

Known as the ‘four horsemen’ of New Atheism, these four big thinkers of the twenty-first century met only once. Their electrifying examination of ideas on this remarkable occasion was intense and wide-ranging.