Swart Donkey

We constantly unpack as we move, rebuilding our spoken and unspoken contracts of how we agree to work with each other. Negotiating complex r...

South Africa is the most unequal economy in the world. It is also not an outlier. How can those statements both be true? We keep our inequal...

There is irony in one of the existential questions of being South African. Wherever you earn a living or sleep, there is a should I stay/go/...

Wealth is created in boxes. The key challenge once you understand a problem, is understanding the box. The box is so important, that sometim...

PK and “The Power of One” created a vivid picture of overcoming struggle, and of Oxford and the Rhodes Scholarship, for me. Cecil John Rhode...

Freedom of movement is the way to dismantle privilege. Privilege is inherited barriers to entry. Bring down the walls. As a South African, ...

“This isn’t a democracy” was a common phrase in my corporate career. Although there are legal minority shareholder protections, the realit...

The median (half have less) disposable income for UK households (2.4 people) is £29,400. After reading William MacAskill and Peter Singer ...

Keyhole Surgery is a minimally invasive approach to fixing a problem that restricts the collateral damage. I had my appendix out when I wa...

Financial Security is a team sport. The former Mayor of South-Central Durban, Theresa Mthembu, invited me to her home in 1996. It was the ...

South Africa is the world’s most unequal country. It is also only as unequal as the world. This is only possible because the primary tool ...