"I write what I like."
– Steve Biko

Aug 23, 2020
4 min

In search of the explicit

Learn to say what you mean and mean what you say. It will change your life.

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Jun 14, 2020
4 min

Online Learning vs. Emergency Remote Teaching

It’s tempting to directly compare emergency remote teaching with real online learning, but the two couldn't be further apart.

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Aug 5, 2019
5 min

Senamile Masango – Not Your Everyday Nuclear Physicist

From teen mom to nuclear physicist – meet Senamile Masango, the first African woman to conduct an experiment at CERN.

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Jul 11, 2019
5 min

We Need to Get Comfortable with (Real) Failure

The failure I’m talking about is the outright, embarrassing, you-haven’t-got-a-hope kind of failure.

255 views

Jul 1, 2018
4 min

A Difficult Conversation on Fear

Why do we avoid talking about certain kinds of fear? In South Africa, it's a conversation intermingled with race.

219 views

Aug 20, 2017
6 min

Beyond the Rhetoric of Transformation

Transformation, even in political terms, is a matter of mind and spirit.

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Apr 4, 2017
6 min

Why I supported #BlackMonday and will support #NationalShutdown

Thoughts on selective protest in South Africa. Sometimes, solidarity is the only way to save your country.

261 views

Mar 26, 2017
5 min

Striving and Being: The Road Less Travelled

How helpful are self-help "gurus"?

87 views

Mar 21, 2017
6 min

A Man of Good Hope

Follow the story of one man, Asad, who joins thousands of Somali migrants in their diaspora to the south in search of a better life.

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Feb 17, 2017
6 min

The Social Media We Deserve

Do you have the social media YOU deserve?

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Feb 11, 2017
6 min

Taking the Low Road: SONA 2017

Thoughts on South Africa's 2017 State of the Nation Address.

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Dec 30, 2016
5 min

Redefining "Open Minded"

Have those difficult conversations, even if Piet Van Tonder just doesn't get it. We all have an unspoken responsibility to build bridges.

237 views

Oct 21, 2016
5 min

My Two Cents on the State of the Nation

A few thoughts on the messy politics of South Africa and the meaning of leadership.

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Let's take things to the next level

Let's take things to the next level

Let's take things to the next level

Let's take things to the next level

"I write what I like."
– Steve Biko

Sunday Times

Cultural preservation: the black tax that enriches

Nothing But The Wax

Don't call me a "global citizen" – I am a global African

Sunday Times

South Africans persist in being foreigners in their own continent

Grassroots Economics

When a woman saves, a community wins

Year On

5 Things I Wish I Knew Before Taking a Gap Year

Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters of our lives won't have a title until much later.

– Bob Goff

© Rebecca Mqamelo 2021

"I write what I like." – Steve Biko

Sunday Times Cultural preservation: the black tax that enriches

Nothing But The Wax Don't call me a "global citizen" – I am a global African

Sunday Times South Africans persist in being foreigners in their own continent

Grassroots Economics​ When a woman saves, a community wins

Year On 5 Things I Wish I Knew Before Taking a Gap Year

"I write what I like."
– Steve Biko

Sunday Times

Cultural preservation: the black tax that enriches

Nothing But The Wax

Don't call me a "global citizen" – I am a global African

Sunday Times

South Africans persist in being foreigners in their own continent

Grassroots Economics

When a woman saves, a community wins

Year On

5 Things I Wish I Knew Before Taking a Gap Year