Overcoming the psychosocial consequences of persistent unemployment
Structural unemployment has harmful psychosocial effects that erode individual identity, human dignity, mental well-being, social inclusion, and economic mobility... Read more.
Randall Carolissen | Advancing intellectual activism in SA higher education: An imperative for restorative social justice
The genesis of this article is the recollection of a reality so stark that that even a hardened cynic was shocked. Recently we visited the beautiful coastal town... Read more.
Does power corrupt or are the corrupt attracted to power?
Sturm and Antonakis defined power as “having the discretion and the means to asymmetrically enforce one’s will over others”. Finding resonance with... Read more.
Corruption in the evolution of human society and the power motive gearing it
South Africa’s democratic transition in 1994, supported by its widely admired Constitution, transformed the country from pariah status into a global model for... Read more.
Improving debates on inequality in South Africa
The merits of an inclusive, equitable society are broadly in consensus, but the approaches cannot be more widely different between contesting parties. Differing... Read more.
Quantum leadership in the age of uncertainty
Quantum leadership is a philosophy inspired by theories from Quantum Mechanics, Complex Adaptive Systems, and modern systems thinking. It emerged in response to... Read more.
Deepening inequality through exclusion mechanism of mathematics
Success rates and quality of school mathematics are often cited as a metric when assessing the state of a country’s education system. Mathematics has a foundational... Read more.
Suppression of Growth Mindsets by Debilitating and Intractable Poverty: South Africa
1 Background The poverty trap is defined as a societal and economic condition in which people struggle to escape poverty and financial insecurity. Liberation from... Read more.
