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ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY

M&G Thought Leaders’ top books of 2021

The Mail & Guardian asked a few of the regular contributors to the ThoughtLeader platform to give us their views on the top three books they read this year

  • ThoughtLeader
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The real challenge for China is facing up to its own modernity: How does it become the sort of society that is consistent with its rapidly modernising economy without major, chaotic social upheaval? (Jorge Silva/Reuters)
ARAB SPRING

How China could solve its Hong Kong problem

The way university management handled the #FeesMustFall demonstrations offers some lessons for the Beijing administration

  • Philip Machanick
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Philip Machanick looks back on recent and past events in a bid to weigh in on the case of Charlie Hebdo
PHILIP MACHANICK

The case of Charlie: Who exactly is in the right here?

We can condemn the reckless use of free speech by the cartoonists, but the response of the extremists was not justified, writes Philip Machanick.

  • Philip Machanick
7 min read
PHILIP MACHANICK

There’s a lot SA can do to solve skills crisis

SA is haemorrhaging skills at a rate of 10 times its ability to import skills. This has to be cause for concern, especially as official figures have to be optimistic. Forex…

  • Staff Reporter
7 min read