Rudi Buys, NetEd Group Chief Academic Officer and Executive Dean, DaVinci Business Institute.
With a global media infrastructure continuously deepening its role as storyteller of local and global conflicts, catharsis even in far-off places have become intimate ...
‘The underlying drama in Ratatouille is the perceived conflict between the views that greatness is the purview of the exceptional few or rather as something that ...
‘When analysts and think-tanks claim to offer objective analysis without partisan interest, and presumably similar populations and data are available to everyone, ...
‘With a dignified burial the family will remember, and therein also a society. In this one moment of return of a citizen lies a critical part of what repatriation ...
COLUMN: ‘Among many heroes in the broad societal programme to imagine and construct new futures for South Africans, as teachers, they must be the spearhead of the ...
COLUMN: ‘Binary debate is about reduction. It simplifies the question, assumes what statements mean, and considers only some examples of a situation sufficient and ...
‘As a tool to empower individuals and audiences to make informed choices, and to direct authors, producers and orators to be more sensitive to audience context, ...
‘In this case it includes the live broadcast images, the pictures of the scene that floods the news and social media, and then the pictures of the Last Supper with ...
‘In public discourse protest and apathy are most often taken as the main reasons when citizens do not vote, and therefore also to explain declining voter turnout ...
COLUMN: Rudi Buys writes about the merit of the ‘academic freedom’ argument which was recently used by the Senate – the penultimate academic oversight body at universities ...
‘Since the 19th century the rights of workers were taken as the fundamental struggle for human freedom, not only because of unjust working conditions under which ...
COLUMN: ‘The game’ refers to the public and popular drama that election campaigns carefully choreograph to trigger citizen emotions, capture their imagination and ...
OPINION: The last mass march by whites in South Africa took place in 1990. More than 20 000 marched against the release of former President Nelson Mandela and FW ...
COLUMN: Intuitive decision-making is increasingly recognised as a legitimate method for individuals and organisations to formulate questions, make sense of complex ...
COLUMN: Rudi Buys writes that the argument that Braai Day trivialises the richness and nuance of different cultures is similar to the more formal argument of “cultural ...
COLUMN: Rudi Buys writes that the resurgence of the “Rubicon” as an indicator of major political interventions, has become shorthand for the return of strongman ...
In grocery stores bread and milk shelves are empty. Shops close doors and safety gates as looters gather.
OPINION: Freedom Day ended it all, ended the wars, ended conscription and ended the campaign. But did Freedom Day also end conscientious objection?
COLUMN: Go high or low? Vice or virtue? These questions represent the first problem that political parties and their campaign strategists must resolve as the race ...
COLUMN: The celebration of Human Rights Day comes with a multitude of images that represent human rights. Three, above all, receive the most imprints.
COLUMN: Images of political leaders have in popular cultures over time come to show that those who make use of their likenesses in some form or other support countercultural ...
COLUMN: “I’m not able to complete your request”, read the reply. I had asked the chatbot, ChatGPT, for a list of resources from which it constructed its answers. ...
OPINION: Rudi Buys writes that the Maselspoort incident on Christmas Day put the country on edge, on red alert, not on formal grounds or due to matters of policy ...
COLUMN: Rudi Buys writes that while often criticised as a character trait of South African society that limits our resolve to deal with challenges, hope is also ...
Stellenbosch University recently received and made public the report on racism at the institution by former Justice of the Constitutional Court, Emeritus Justice ...