At a relatively young age they knew they‘d left the curriculum behind them. It’s not that they were being schooled more, or that they were inordinately bright. It’s just that their curiosity took them into the next horizon in music, creativity and collaborations. The era of Gen Zs* out-digitalizing their…

The loud thud shook our home a mile away. It turned out to be a large bomb, 200 pounds, the size of a washing machine. In less than 15 minutes we had breached police and defence cordons in central Joburg to be within the blast perimeter. It was carnage. Nine…

In 2005 in Berlin, Briton David Dunkley Gyimah received the highest International award for videojournalism for his film ‘8 days’ . It featured British newspaper journalists he’d trained converting from text to multimedia and video producers to report on a murder. The UK scheme was set up by the Press…

Worth listening to, to at least understand the boundaries often of education which becomes conventionalised. This from one of the great cinema makers, Orson Welles in 1960 talking about how he landed Citizen Kane (CK) as a newbie. CK has often been voted one of the best films ever by…

There are multiple versions of you, living multiple lives. Each one of those defines you. Some are recognised, some not! They have to wait the turn. But sometimes you can’t wait. A Kung-Fu, metaverse-jumping, laundry-owning mother sorting out her taxes and winning an Oscar appears to signal a change in…

This is it, I thought clutching my tape recorder about to board a plane to a country that by all television and radio news’ accounts was gripped by a civil war. …

They had the measure of a new South Africa emerging from the cold as an Apartheid state. A new dawn. It’s almost 30 years ago from that momentous anniversary. In the winter of 1992 as a young journalist hitting his head against the wall for work, I had a dream…

There was not much notice given when journalism became a profession. You can pick your moment, even as close as the 1960s. You as a journalist were doing what no one else was, and that is report truthfully an event. Yes, yellow journalism circa late 19th century with two US…

It was the festival of leading creatives in the UK, a creative coalition of producers, idea-realisers, policy makers and government officials. Three days of creative debate spread across issues such as: Investing in the Future: The Importance of R&D and Experimentation in Driving Creativity The Role of Investment in the…