by Prof Joseph Sekhampu | May 13, 2026 | Expert Voices
South Africa’s labour market is not only producing unemployment. It is increasingly producing withdrawal. The latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) shows that employment declined by 345 000 in the first quarter of 2026, while labour force participation fell...
by Prof Joseph Sekhampu | Apr 29, 2026 | Expert Voices
What is beginning to take shape in South Africa is not a single crisis that can be isolated, measured, and resolved, but a convergence of pressures aligned across economic life, political authority, and everyday experience. In recent weeks, this convergence has become...
by Prof Joseph Sekhampu | Apr 21, 2026 | Expert Voices
There are moments in leadership where the loudest tension is not between us and others, but between us and the words we once spoke with certainty. We remember the convictions we taught, the lessons we repeated, the principles we once offered to those who trusted our...
by Prof Joseph Sekhampu | Apr 15, 2026 | Expert Voices
Compassion often sits at the moral centre of leadership. Many begin their leadership journey not because they seek authority, but because they care deeply about people and about the conditions that shape their lives. They listen when others are not heard and respond...
by Prof Joseph Sekhampu | Apr 10, 2026 | Expert Voices
The Democratic Alliance presents a persistent puzzle in South African politics. It is widely regarded as administratively competent and organisationally disciplined, but its expansion into a broad national coalition remains uneven and bounded. Episodes of internal...
by Prof Joseph Sekhampu | Mar 20, 2026 | Expert Voices
Prof. Joseph Sekhampu is the Chief Director of the NWU Business School. The South African municipal landscape is not collapsing in a single moment of crisis. It is eroding in slow motion. Hundreds of local councils operate as if the Constitution demanded their...
