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11 May 2021
The Prisoners’ Dilemma
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Picture this. Two accomplices are arrested and put into two different interrogation rooms. The skilled interrogators play each prisoner ag...
03 May 2021
Game Theory and Strategy
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Strategy is about competition, and, ideally, cannot and should not, be cast in stone. Static strategy is suboptimal. While it should be conc...
28 April 2021
What colour is the dress?
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What colour is the dress? Not long ago, there was a viral Internet sensation about a dress. Depending on your brain’s wiring, you either s...
13 April 2021
The Law of Unintended Consequences
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The law of unintended consequences is an important concept in policy-making and implementation, and in project development and evaluation....
24 March 2021
Butterfly wings
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Each of us has an ability to influence things, whether it be in a small way around us, or in a big way that affects the course of history. W...
22 March 2021
CJ Mogoeng and his foot-in-mouth moments
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It can’t be argued that we didn’t know what we were getting when President Zuma decided to appoint Mogoeng as the CJ of South Africa. Mogo...
12 March 2021
Mthokozisi Ntumba: Stop arming police during peaceful civil protests!
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Numerous times police actions during civil protests have resulted in deaths or serious injuries on the part of protesting citizens and bysta...
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