{"id":36568,"date":"2022-10-18T16:24:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T14:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/call-for-applications-aoca-student-academic-mentors-x30-copy\/"},"modified":"2022-10-19T08:12:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T06:12:44","slug":"opinion-stop-the-excuses-africa-tackle-the-elephant-and-become-a-tiger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/opinion-stop-the-excuses-africa-tackle-the-elephant-and-become-a-tiger\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Stop the excuses, Africa &#8211; tackle the elephant and become a tiger"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"36568\" class=\"elementor elementor-36568\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4c891cce elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4c891cce\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6a345ff7\" data-id=\"6a345ff7\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-71cfc1c2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"71cfc1c2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 7 October 2022 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\">Sol Plaatje University<\/a><\/span> (SPU) hosted the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3CTV4q1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Annual Sol Plaatje Lecture<\/a><\/span> to honour the legacy of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje, after whom the university is named.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year\u2019s guest speaker for the Annual Sol Plaatje Lecture, Professor William Gumede from the School of Governance at the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wits.ac.za\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of the Witwatersrand<\/a><\/span>, who is also the Founder and Executive Chairman of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracyworks.org.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democracy Works Foundation<\/a><\/span>, delivered a lecture under the theme \u201cIntellectual Re-Imagination: What can South Africa learn from the East Asian Development States\u201d.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In an opinion piece published by TimesLIVE on 11 October 2022, Prof Gumede states that many successful East Asian developmental states, unlike African countries after the end of the colonialism deliberately and conscientiously pushed for a collective transformation mindset change. These changes have brought about high economic growth rates, industrialisation and building competitive global businesses.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Read the opinion piece <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/sunday-times-daily\/opinion-and-analysis\/2022-10-11-william-gumede-stop-the-excuses-africa-tackle-the-elephant-and-become-a-tiger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 7 October 2022 Sol Plaatje University (SPU) hosted the Annual Sol Plaatje Lecture to honour the legacy of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje, after whom the university is named. This year\u2019s guest speaker for the Annual Sol Plaatje Lecture, Professor William <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/opinion-stop-the-excuses-africa-tackle-the-elephant-and-become-a-tiger\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"coauthors":[185],"class_list":["post-36568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36568"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36584,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36568\/revisions\/36584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36568"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=36568"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=36568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}