Countries must take stock of the setbacks working women have suffered over the COVID-19 pandemic, and imagine new ways forward.

Countries must take stock of the setbacks working women have suffered over the COVID-19 pandemic, and imagine new ways forward.

Prof Kurt April, Chair of the Allan Gray Centre for Values Based Leadership at the UCT GSB was in conversation with Busisiwe Mavuso, CEO at Business Leadership SA, at the first of the quarterly Allan Gray Speaker Series events in March.

The thinking that has informed business leadership will not see us through the present challenges we face. To remake the world we need to recognise the deficiencies in leadership we experience and change how we train future leaders.

2021. Review, Reset, Reimagine: Learning from the past as we shape a more humane future enabled by extraordinary technological advances.

We often use the expression, "It’s time to put your big boy/big girl pants on," when telling someone that they need to start acting in a mature, adult way.

The public perception of wealth influences how policy makers address the problem of economic inequality.

Kindness seems to be in the air at the moment. We all sense that kindness is good, but at this critical juncture in our national life, is there justification for seeing kind acts as a way to help turn around conflicted societies like ours?

The numbers tell the story: of every 100 SA learners, 60 will sit their matric exams, 37 will pass, 12 will go to university, and only six will complete their undergraduate studies within six years.

This world – the real world – is not a show. People are not their roles. We are no longer simply characters in whatever theater we happen to play in.