Tag: SouthAfrica

The city is still dark when her alarm sounds. A faint digital chime cuts through the quiet as her children sleep. Her day begins long before sunrise. First comes the walk to the taxi rank. Then follows a crowded minibus ride and the slow crawl through Johannesburg’s traffic.

Leading 25,000 people across Southern Africa has taught me that authentic inclusion cannot be scheduled. Business leaders are challenged to move beyond performative diversity initiatives. I also question whether their commitment to South Africa's cultural richness extends beyond designated awareness days. At its core, this article interrogates the limits of calendar activism in driving real inclusion.

If you are a vaper in South Africa, you need to understand what is about to happen. Within months, the government’s new Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Control Bill will pass through Parliament. When it does, vaping in this country will be finished.

As South Africa plans to host the G20, there is revived interest and a hive of side events taking place looking at how to make the energy transition to cleaner energy use just for all. With an official unemployment rate of 32.9%, the justness of South Africa’s energy transition must consider potential job losses in the country’s high emission coal energy sector that still employs roughly 92,000 people. 

A growing number of the youth are giving trade unions a pass - not out of disinterest, but disconnection. Traditional union structures feel increasingly out of step with the values, platforms and priorities of a new generation navigating digital workspaces, gig economies and fluid career paths.