Swart Donkey

I was supported through university by Old Mutual. It was part of why I chose the career I did. Pragmatically sitting on a bench in London du...

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...

Stay home doesn’t have a universal meaning. The self-evident truth of the current Global Crisis is that while we are all in the same storm...

One of my favourite essays to regularly reread is Scott Alexander’s “ I can tolerate anything except the outgroup ”. It reminds me of how ...

A big part of the “who are we?” struggle going on is a battle between Globalisation and Localisation. We live in a connected world. No man...

I moved to the UK in 2008 partly for family reasons, and partly for the increased opportunity set of working in a Global City. I never “le...

Finding Roots in a Global World I have been writing my blog almost daily for about 4.5 years now. A form of stream of consciousness, ...

Trev: I grew up in a religious, mostly protestant, mostly white, liberalish community in Apartheid South Africa. One of my watershed mome...

Trev: I got my British Passport a year before the Brexit Referendum. As someone who believes the C20th introduction of passport control wa...

Two thousand years of Imperial Rule ended in China in 1912. A lightly held Republic was established, but that descended into Civil War as ...

Guangzhou has a 2,200 year history as a Silk Road port. What we think of as " The Age of Discovery " is analogous to an undergrad...

We have limited capacity. Limited time. Limited attention. Limited energy. The power of this is that we will make different mistakes. Mista...

I am a Soutie. I have one foot in South Africa and one foot in the United Kingdom.   I am not the only one.  There are plenty of South Afri...

" Purchase Power Parity " (PPP) is a tool used when comparing the output of two countries. If you just compare the Price, it does...

Some people get Microwave Ovens as wedding gifts. Bombaim means good little Bay in Portuguese. In 1661, Charles II of England was given the...

I feel most alive when I am engaging with someone else. When I am having a good Kuier. I like doing my blog and recording video blogs. That...

Durante mucho tiempo, España fue la potencia mundial dominante. Crecí en Sudáfrica, donde cualquier impacto duradero no es inmediatamente o...

A pet-peeve of a lot of South Africans, including myself, is when people speak of Africa as if it is one country, or one place separate  fr...

1801 Map of the World - Mercator Projection Economics is the study of scarcity. In a world with limited resources, how do we maximise...

Apartheid involved the creation of Homelands  for people of specific ethnic groups - creating homogenous Nation States. The idea fed off th...