The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that the prevalence of cancer in developing countries will increase by around 60% before 2021 due to rapid lifestyle changes. Developing countries such as South Africa have indeed experienced a sharp increase in the number of incidents. An ever evolving diet, especially in the urban areas of the country,...
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Perception Management – Corporate South Africa
“Explain to me why on earth you found it appropriate to test assets this way?” My manager impatiently asked, clearly very disappointed in my methods. “Well… I…” (I’m already too terrified to say anything) ” I thought…” Too tired to listen to my flimsy and soft spoken excuses, he impatiently cuts me off and replies:...
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Understand Men Better: Thoughts of a Man
This is the beginning of a new year and you can see how everyone is amped and ready for a change; to start again, to do things differently. One looks at the previous year and looks at the good and bad of your environment and the decisions that were made to grow as a person...
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Do Not Disturb
A lot of lying happened in December, those scenarios and flings expired on the 1st. That being said, why is it that men seem to enjoy disturbing the peace of women. Here is a single woman, happy. She’s upwardly mobile, she has her life relatively together. Financially stable, she’s intelligent and well groomed too, in...
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Nairobi Nights: January Mind Games
The stereotype of a Street prostitute is that of a birdbrain, a girl dull enough all she could think of to earn a living was open her legs and lower herself to the bottom of society. Over time I have learnt there are few advantages of trying to prove otherwise to those clients who still...
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Show Us Your Souce …
It’s that time of the year again where everyone is on holiday and I’m hoping that everyone is with their friends, family and loved ones. Its been a challenging year in general but for some it has been a bad year, while for some it has been an amazing year. What I love about this time...
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Jay-Z and Dean Baquet, in Conversation
My conversation with Jay-Z began with O.J. When I was a kid growing up in black New Orleans in the 1960s, O.J. Simpson was a god. We imitated his moves, his swagger. We didn’t want to just play like him. We wanted to be him, gorgeous and running in the California sun. We practiced his...
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Why So Many Boys Today Don’t Become Men
Boys being boys is okay unless they never become men. And Dr. Leonard Sax is one of the leading authorities on why certain adolescent males remain stunted. A physician and psychologist whose books, including Boys Adrift and The Collapse of Parenting, are brimming with insight and academic citations, he’s extremely concerned with the future of the American male. Sax sees...
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Understand Men Better: Why Men Shut down
Shutting down is such a common thing amongst men when we are upset and dealing with a lot of emotions at once. I believe that shutting down happens a lot in relationships because as men we are forced to deal and open up to someone else besides family and friends. The reason I bring up family and friends...
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Coping With Infertility Depression
When you’re dealing with infertility, it can feel like you and your partner are alone in a sea of happy new families. That’s both understandable and untrue. The truth is that nearly one in six couples in the U.S. — 7.3 million people annually — struggle with infertility after at least one year of trying. Though popular culture...