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I have just finished reading “ALONE - The Search for Brett Archibald.” (2016). A true story of a South African falling overboard at 02h30 on the 17th April 2013 in the Mentawai Strait

As a family we try and spend 3-4 nights in the Kruger at least every second year. We love it, self-driving, stopping where you want, for as long as you want.

South Africa doesn’t have a major sea swimming event solely for charity. Julie Hay of Singakwenza Early Childhood Education and Ryan O'Connor from Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife decided to create a new two-day event in which swimmers could choose between swimming eight miles or one mile for a charity of their choice, to provide charities that have a footprint in KwaZulu-Natal with a sustainable source of income. Eight miles in the sea off Durban’s Vetch's Beach! 

The SUNDAY TIMES of 11 June the front page reads “Business and government smoke peace pipe” It reports “Ramaphosa stressed the business and government were ‘working together’ and that the needed to counter the assumption that business was ‘assisting government’ which implied the administration was incompetent.”Agreement was reached on the formation of a National Logistics Crisis committee and a Joint Initiative to fight Crime and Corruption built on the success of the National En...

I have just finished reading “ALONE - The Search for Brett Archibald.” (2016). A true story of a South African falling overboard at 02h30 on the 17th April 2013 in the Mentawai Strait

Reasons for returning to South Africa is a Facebook page which mostly has letters from people who are about to go, and wonder if they’re making the right decision, and people who have just returned, and wonder why they ever went! These letters make for interesting reading and invariably give fresh perspectives. This one humoured me, as is! Steuart Pennington

Reasons for returning to South Africa is a Facebook page which mostly has letters from people who are about to go, and wonder if they’re making the right decision, and people who have just returned, and wonder why they ever went! These letters make for interesting reading and invariably give fresh perspectives. This one humoured me, as is! Steuart Pennington

There has been strong opinion on the ‘unwillingness’ of prominent business leaders to publicly ‘speak up’ and take our government to task regarding our current loadshedding, corruption, cadre deployment, crime, service delivery, unemployment, potholes etc. malaise. Comments abound, like “So many spineless CEO’s out there.

I recently came across the following “ At the end of September, Discovery Group Chief Executive, Adrian Gore, launched a challenge on LinkedIn, setting himself a goal of running a mile in 5 minutes – or as close as possible to it – by end November. While this goal is an ambitious personal endeavour for a 58-year-old CEO, its scope is much broader than Adrian and running.”

I attended a talk at my old school on its annual Speech Day, an Old Boy Andrew Robertson, CEO and President of BBDO Worldwide gave a talk on the ‘media’. I so enjoyed it, and have presented a slightly edited version here. Steuart Pennington