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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

Padkos adds to the joy of any road trip but finding fresh ideas is not that easy. Wayne Blake, Group Food & Beverage Manager at ANEW Hotels & Resorts, shares five creative, fuss-free snacks that taste so good you’ll want to start snacking before you’ve even left the driveway! Rooibos and Citrus Nut Cluster A crisp and aromatic snack perfect for long hours in the car. Preheat your oven to 140°C and line a tray with baking paper. In a bowl, mix roughly 375ml mixed nuts suc

Spier Light Art returns for its eighth edition, transforming the historic Stellenbosch wine farm into a nocturnal landscape of contemporary art. As night falls, works glow, shimmer and shift across the grounds, inviting visitors to experience light as both medium and meaning. For this year's edition, running until 6 April 2026 and free to enjoy, curators Vaughn Sadie and Jay Pather have selected works from 21 artists that probe environmental crises, social memory and post