Jabulani Sikhakhane

1 month ago | businesslive.co.za | Jabulani Sikhakhane

Harvard rejects anti-diversity policy as lawless, unconstitutional; Columbia says some academic freedoms are ‘not subject to negotiation’

1 month ago | businesslive.co.za | Jabulani Sikhakhane

The City of Johannesburg’s annual flight of fancy — budgeting — is under way. Every year the former City of Gold projects great financial performances for the second and third years of its three-year budget cycle. Such performances always turn out to be a mirage, but this hasn’t stopped city officials and politicians from doing the same thing every year. The city’s projections of cash on hand by the end of a financial year is a good example.

2 months ago | businesslive.co.za | Jabulani Sikhakhane

SA has for many years punched way above its weight in scientific research, especially in the medical field, helped mostly by money pumped into the country’s university system by Western countries and other donors. I won’t discuss the potential loss of lives; much has been said about that by other voices. The US decision to reduce, and possibly stop, the funding of research by SA academics therefore poses a big challenge to SA’s research ecosystem.

2 months ago | businesslive.co.za | Jabulani Sikhakhane

The fallout with the US raises questions about SA’s approach and practice of diplomacy, specifically it’s ability to read the political mood and temperature of a country which, as things stand, is important to us. These questions apply to American politics — the return to office of US President Donald Trump and what it meant for SA’s relationship with the US. This is so especially when overlain with SA’s decision to take Israel (an important US ally) to the International Court of Justice. ..

2 months ago | businesslive.co.za | Jabulani Sikhakhane

Negotiations to start immediately in the Middle East, White House says, starting with ceasefire on energy and infrastructure attacks