For me to put you the right frame of mind, I need to paint a picture. Windhoek Country Club, the scene of many beauty pageants since Michelle Mclean was the Namibian beauty crowned as Miss Universe. It is a few years ago, I am on stage for the annual Miss Namibia event. The question is: …
Category Archives: Uncertain world
Taking time to take stock – Take a knee soldier!
Picture the scene, our space faring descendants have just crash landed on a hostile earth. And the earth has good reason to be hostile, because we are not very kind to it right now, are we? Anyway, in the movie “After Earth”, Cypher (played by Will Smith), instructs his son, Kitai (played by his son), …
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Corporate governance – by law or by principle?
The grave responsibility of being a director.
The cheque is in the post
Yeah, how many times have I heard that before, over the last 6 months? So instead of philosophical debates about the origin, cause (which goes before origin – and addresses the root of why we are where we are right now), and consequences of COVID, today is about being real. I toyed for a few …
Petrichor and planting
OK, I have my first “writers block”. But persistence overcomes resistance, so let me use the auto function on my phone to write for me. Err, perhaps not. Let me rather share my anticipation. Come up to the lab, see what’s on the slab, its just a jump to the left, and then a step …