Kobus Maree, University of Pretoria The world of work is changing all the time. In the past, people would probably choose one career and stick to it for the rest of their lives, gradually climbing up the ladder with clearly demarcated and structured relationships. They might even remain at one company throughout their working lives. But today, people move between careers and jobs several times; they have to navigate many work-related transitions. The problem is that career counselling hasn’t, for the most part, adapted to these new realities. In the developing world, traditional career counselling approaches are still the order…
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Today, the Crystal Ball™ brings to you, the outlook for the Nigerian oil and gas industry in the next four years. While the current reform in the Nigerian Oil & Gas Sector (PIGB et Al) appears to have stalled, this new tenure promises to bring renewed progress in the efforts to restructure the industry. In addition, President Muhammed Buhari’s administration has expressed its desires to withhold renewal of over 40 Oil Mining Leases that will be due this year. This will bring about competition and tenders by new players for these OMLs. It is expected that a larger percentage of these leases…
Carina Bruwer, University of Cape Town The world’s oceans are at the centre of transnational organised crimes committed by profit-driven networks operating across borders. The United Nations Security Council recently convened to discuss the threat this poses to international peace and security. While Somali piracy in the Western Indian Ocean focused the world’s attention on the oceans, numerous other transnational organised crimes are taking place across the globe. The Western Indian Ocean also serves as a highway for multiple ton shipments of heroin, Somali charcoal and illegal wildlife products. Piracy and armed robbery are also found off South East Asia,…
Bonny Ibhawoh, McMaster University As long as unresolved historic injustices continue to fester in the world, there will be a demand for truth commissions. Unfortunately, there is no end to the need. The goal of a truth commission — in some forms also called a truth and reconciliation commission, as it is in Canada — is to hold public hearings to establish the scale and impact of a past injustice, typically involving wide-scale human rights abuses, and make it part of the permanent, unassailable public record. Truth commissions also officially recognize victims and perpetrators in an effort to move beyond…
Nick Haslam, University of Melbourne; Melanie J. McGrath, University of Melbourne, and Melissa A. Wheeler, University of Melbourne Values such as care, compassion and safety are more important to us now than they were in the 1980s. The importance of respecting authority has fallen since the beginning of the 20th century, while judging right and wrong based on loyalty to country and family has steadily risen. Our analysis, using the Google Books database and published in Plos One, showed distinctive trends in our moral priorities between 1900 to 2007. How we should understand these changes in moral sensibility is a…
Barry Morton, Indiana University South Africans have for decades been hoodwinked by unscrupulous pastors. Recently a spate of incredible “miracles” by these self-styled, flashy miracle men offering healing and prosperity have again been in the headlines. The latest prominent one is a “resurrection” perpetrated by Pastor Alph Lukau of Alleluia Ministries International. In a widely circulated video, Lukau called on a “dead” man in a coffin to “rise up”. It was so farcical that the #ResurrectionChallenge, in which people are mocking it, has been trending on social media ever since. There have been other notable examples. Three years ago, Paseka…
Dawn is all yours my son to readjust your sail and achieve more than Columbus, It’s all yours, my son, to readjust your power and achieve more than caeser, It’s yours, my son, to learn the follies and mistakes of the greatest men. Where they failed and missed it, Where they rushed and missed it, What they feared that ruined them, Where they ruled and missed it, Where they searched that wrecked them, Who they rushed that drowned them, Dawn is all yours my son. Dawn is all yours to correct their follies, To correct what they couldn’t,…
Holy Humour Hearsay The new minister stood at the church door greeting the members as they left the Sunday morning service. Most of the people were very generous telling the new minister how much they liked his message, except for one man who said, “The was a very dull and boring sermon, pastor.” A few minutes later, the same man again appeared in line and said, “I don’t think you did much preparation for your message.” Once again, the man appeared, this time muttering, “You really blew it. You didn’t have a thing to say, pastor.” Finally, the minister could stand…
Feast of St. Polycarp Reading 1 Heb 11:1-7 Brothers and sisters: Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen. Because of it the ancients were well attested. By faith, we understand that the universe was ordered by the word of God, so that what is visible came into being through the invisible. By faith Abel offered to God a sacrifice greater than Cain’s. Through this, he was attested to be righteous, God bearing witness to his gifts, and through this, though dead, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he…
…Continued from last week. Tola was my closest friend and I really hated the distance between us especially now things were going well with doctor Obi. I had a lot of mixed emotions and I wasn’t sure if I was concerned for Tola’s wellbeing or this was just plain jealousy. The reappearance of Lekan had put a strain on our relationship and I had to figure out a way to win her back, so I called Lekan, armed with a brilliant plan. “Hello Ebbie, I’ve been expecting your call. I knew you’d come around.” “Can we meet up, it’s really…