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Every day since we first went into lockdown last year, I have thought of the words of the Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh: ‘It is not impermanence that
makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not. We need to learn to appreciate the value of impermanence.’
Now that Covid has proven that nothing is cast in stone and that it is possible to do things differently, the important thing now is not to return helter-skelter to the way things were, but to remember what exactly we were forced to reassess, re-evaluate and reset, and why.
why, on page 8, we asked four people who work in the field what can, should and has to change in our schools and universities.
Access to equal education has been
a burning socio-economic and political question in our country. Even during lockdown, South Africans continued to take to the streets to vent their frustration about matters such as service delivery, employment and, yes, education. There were altogether 511 protests in the
126 days between 27 March and 31 July 2020. That’s more than four a day. On page 12, Jen Thorpe unpacks the way we protest as well as the new protest culture playing out in our streets and online.
With the first quarter of 2021 under the belt, it’s good to remember that much as we might be champing at the bit to move forward, life can only be understood backwards. Therefore we look at the relationship between leadership and trust
(page 18), company culture (page 24) and what South Africa needs to take us into the future (page 30).
In one of James Norbury’s Big Panda & Tiny Dragon drawings, Big Panda asks his friend which is more important, the journey or the destination. To which
Tiny Dragon replies: ‘The company.’ I look forward to navigating the new way of doing in your company.
Happy reading!
Gugu-Lisa Zwane-Johnson Editor
ed’s note welcome
MiNDSPACE won gold in the Best Print Experience B2B category at The Content Council’s 2020 Pearl Awards in New York City.
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Whether it’s education, health and wellbeing or the environment, 2020 opened our eyes to what is not working as it should for everyone. What drives business, for instance. After first looking at what ‘the new consumer’ wants from brands (page 20), we question Milton Friedman’s declaration that greed on page 41. Or education. Which is
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