Swart Donkey

When I went to work in the UK in 2008, I needed a work visa. I was born in the South African container, and needed permission to work in the...

20-year-old Trev also had long hair. Grown during a two-year stint in the UK on a work-travel visa, in between school and university. It was...

“Win-Win” was the biggest insight Adam Smith offered the world. With central decision makers trapped in Nation State gun boat diplomacy, and...

Different waves of European Colonization rose from the failure of the Crusades (and the expansion of the Ottoman Empire), and the successful...

I buy many of the stronger arguments about eating less meat, and so am slowly changing my habits. I also buy the argument that we have a qu...

Compound growth is both powerful and dangerous. I am a believer in both localisation and globalisation. In unlearning and learning. In str...

There is no point in being angry at God if you are an atheist. There is no one to direct the anger at. I am anationalist and an acorporati...

Complexity is hard to deal with. So we ask easier questions. We model reality with stories and characters. We come up with simplifying num...

Connecting lifestyles to scorecards of success is both incorrect and dangerous. Capital can live forever if treated well. It can sustainab...

A few years back, I got some of my money a job at Colgate. I brush my teeth every day, twice a day. I plan to continue doing that. I like ...

Trev: I grew up in Apartheid South Africa as it was gasping for its last breaths, and as the new South Africa was filling its lungs for th...

Companies are 'legal people'. We talk about them as if they are real, and the law treats them as if they are real. The same is true...

Nationalism is a very young concept. As a way of organising ourselves, we have trialled and errored lots and lots. Nations came out of the ...

A Public Company offers shares. Its ownership is dispersed among the general population. Stock Exchanges allow individuals to become owners...

The Congress of Berlin was held in 1878. It was there that modern Colonialism was born. The New World had gone after independence, and so ...

Like most countries, most modern languages were standardised and formalised very recently. Yet nationality and language are such a big part...

L'unificazione dell'Italia iniziò solo nel 1815, dopo le guerre napoleoniche. Fu completato quando Roma divenne la capitale del Reg...

Germanische Migration Deutschland wurde erst nach dem Fall Napoleons 1814 zu einem Land. Eine Konföderation von 39 Staaten wurde gebi...

Melilla Border If continents are defined as discrete landmasses, then there are four continents ( Afro-Eurasia , Americas, Australia ...

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...