1. Stick to a routine: Keep to a routine. Don’t stay in your dressing gown the whole day, even if you think your partner/family is OK with it. You are now sharing a house with your partner/family that don’t normally see you during the day. Bear that in mind. Be...
“Have you ever left an interaction with someone who is not from your cultural group, wondering what just happened.? When you left, did you think? “Was that person just rude to me, or is it a ‘cultural thing?’
The Department of Labour published some proposed changes to the Employment Equity Regulations during November last year. This impacts the way businesses and organizations have to report by the 1st October 2009. One of the most important ways in which the regulations...
What happened to good old satire and metaphor in the past week? To listen to the controversy around depicting the justice system as a woman about to be raped, made me feel as though no one understands political satire anymore. The cartoon was designed to be...
When you ask people from different cultures, what they deem important about their values - most people will say: "respect". The truth is, that respect is not the same thing to all people. We have huge misunderstanding daily in South Africa on the basis of our...
Tradition in the legal profession has it that it takes years to groom a judge. Most people travel a long way, before they are able to don the robes and walk the hallowed corridors of the Judges’ Chambers. During that path, many subtle and sometimes not so subtle...