William Gumede
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- Sep 6, 2026
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South Africans need to wake up to the many crippling costs of corruption (opens the original)
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Until ordinary citizens stop dismissing corruption as a peripheral issue, and stop voting for corrupt leaders, they wonât get a safe and stable South Africa country in their lifetimes. William Gumede is an associate professor at the School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand, and author of the bestselling South Africa in BRICS, and Restless Nation: Making Sense of Troubled Times (both Tafelberg). Many ordinary South Africans appear to believe, wrongly, there are no costs to corrupti
Thinking beyond pre-colonial nostalgia â the challenge for young African scholars (opens the original)
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Young African scholars must reject outdated dogmas, embrace intellectual curiosity and modernise cultural and economic models to lead Africa into the AI era. William Gumede is an associate professor at the School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand, and author of the bestselling South Africa in BRICS, and Restless Nation: Making Sense of Troubled Times (both Tafelberg). In an era where emerging technologies blur the lines between physical, digital and biological systems, combining AI,
Chinese economist Gao Shanwen, who took on the ruling Communist Party, has died. (opens the original)
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Gao Shanwen will be remembered for continually angering Chinese Communist Party leaders for his critique of the economy and for unleashing a national debate in China. William Gumede is an associate professor at the School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand, and author of the bestselling South Africa in BRICS, and Restless Nation: Making Sense of Troubled Times (both Tafelberg). The independent-minded Chinese economist Gao Shanwen, who courageously challenged the reliability of Chinaâ
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