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Africa Travel Indaba: 11-14 May Alan Campbell is the Talent and Commercial Director at ANEW Hotels & Resorts Africa’s Travel Indaba 2026 arrives at an important moment for South African tourism. Around the world, travellers are becoming more intentional about where they go, how they spend and what they expect from their travel experiences. Costs remain under pressure, global travel patterns have been disrupted and travellers are planning more carefully than they have in years

Workers' Day - 1 May 2026 Dr Natasha Winkler-Titus is a Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Organisational Behaviour and Programme Head of the PGDip Leadership Development at Stellenbosch Business School. Historically Workers’ Day symbolised victories for organised labour in the formal economy: fair wages, safe working conditions and the right to organise. Yet in contemporary South Africa, the meaning of “worker” has become far more complex. In a country facing persistently h

World Day for Safety and Health at Work - 28 April 2026 Dr. Tshepo JD Ditsele is a lecturer in Leadership at Stellenbosch Business School Executive Development When a workplace accident happens, the explanation often comes quickly: human error. Someone ignored a safety procedure. Someone lost concentration. Someone made a mistake. The investigation concludes with a familiar finding: the worker failed. But what if that explanation is too simple? Across industries such as

Freedom Day 27 April 2026 Prof Armand Bam is the Head of Social Impact and PGDip NPO Leadership Development at Stellenbosch Business School Every year on Freedom Day, we celebrate the arrival of political freedom in 1994.But freedom, like memory, is selective. For some, it marks a rupture with the past.For others, it is a reminder that the past did not disappear; it simply changed form. And so, as we commemorate freedom, a familiar chorus returns: that South Africa has too ma

World Innovation and Creativity Day 2026 Deidre Samson is a lecturer in innovation and design thinking at Stellenbosch Business School Executive Development As South Africa marks World Innovation and Creativity Day (21 April), the global conversation about artificial intelligence remains fixated on a single question: what jobs will we lose? It is the wrong question. Across industries, the organisations navigating the automation transition most successfully are not those wit

World Creativity and Innovation Day – 21 April Dr Lize Barclay is a Senior Lecturer in Futures Studies and Systems Thinking at Stellenbosch Business School Are you someone who reaches for your phone the minute you wake up only to be pulled into doom scrolling, bad news and someone else’s exhausting morning routines? You are not alone. Around 50% of smartphone users pick up their phone within five minutes of waking up, and 80% do so within 15 minutes, predominantly to acce