Grow Your Business in Year of Fire Monkey

 China’s economy is slowing down. Financial reports raise concerns that for 5 consecutive months, the manufacturing sector shrank in December 2015. On the other hand, the Chinese government has just committed $60 billion to Africa after the FOCAC summit in 2015. State-owned enterprises (SOEs) continue to benefit from high-level government introductions. President Xi Jinping and […]

I Speak For The Trees

 by Silvana Garbe In the summer of 2013, I finally managed to do something I had been yearning to do for a long, LONG time. And, as there are no such things as coincidences, there was a forest right next to the block of flats where I used to live. So, finally, as I regained […]

In South Africa University Fees Must Fall

Fees Must Fall in South Africa receives support from Craig Reynolds, former Computer Science lecturer at Vista University in Port Elizabeth where I got my Bachelors degree.

Grow Your Confidence with Toastmasters in Ningbo

 This is an my first column published in Ningbo Focus magazine. “Madam Toastmaster, Ladies and Gentlemen…”, is how many speeches start at a Toastmasters club meeting. Two years ago when I arrived in Ningbo there was only one club with 5 guests. In 2015 there are five Toastmasters clubs, who meet regularly, from Book City […]

Cyber Infidelity – The New Seduction

 Online dating is one of those things that the Internet was made for: People trying to meet people for love and sex in the supposed privacy of their homes. Cyber Infidelity is a book by Dr Eve, who’s real name is Dr Marlene Wasserman based in Cape Town, South Africa. She’s South Africa’s answer to […]