Andre Vlok
@vlok_andre
Conflict and employment dispute specialist, negotiator, mediator, author 📧 [email protected] Blog : http://conflict-conversations.co.za
My 3rd book, now published and available at Amazon and elsewhere. Some additional details, such as the index and comments from the forewords below. How we deal with the conflicts in our cities in the next year or two will determine much of the trajectories of our country
Homework for Sunday evening's Carte Blanche program 😉
/ My article with initial opinions on the Mkhwanazi files one week after the first press conference, dealing with the positives of president Ramaphosa's decisions and what strategies are available from a conflict management perspective conflict-conversations.co.za/conversations/…
Celebrating my dad's birthday today. He would have been 85. Thank you for everything, dad ❤️
Advanced local and global conflict analysis, conflict and negotiation strategies, interviews, coaching, book excerpts and so much more...a unique product at your fingertips conflict-conversations.co.za
As it stands, there is no easy answer to the question of what constitutes a homegrown paradigm of African peacebuilding beyond the usual argument that it is African-centered, Africa-owned, and prioritizes the local agency and wellbeing of grassroots African people. Cyril Obi…
My dad and I, somewhere in the 70s...corduroy pants, awful shirts, home-knitted jerseys...survived to tell the tales 😁
Africa needs to be liberated from the liberation movements
Today is the start of Liberation Movements Summit in South Africa. Delegates will have to answer this question. Are the liberation organisations managing to do deal with the challenges of corruption and are they doing enough to change the lives of ordinary people? #sabcnews
The problem with compromise...my article in this morning's Herald newspaper ☕️📰
Who better than Carte Blanche to deal with this complex national problem? I am one of the people interviewed, and we consider some of the conflict implications and strategies that shape this polycrisis. Join us on Sunday☕️
Explosive allegations of police involvement in the criminal underworld... How one police officer has shaken the South African government. That's #CarteBlanche this Sunday at 7pm on @MNet channel 101, and on @DStv Stream.
Real end-of-empire type stories
French President Macron and his wife Brigitte filed a defamation lawsuit in the US against right-wing influencer and podcaster Candace Owens, centered on her claim that France's first lady is male reut.rs/451x3KJ
Coalition governments - the one tradecraft tool that the majority of our politicians are spectacularly awful at using
We had 4 by-elections last night and no party won more than 45% of the vote in any single by-election. Is this a snapshot of what will unfold in many parts of SA in the next election? More fracturing More competition Far more coalition governments
As the Cold War 2.0 develops globally, countries like South Africa are forced into hard decisions, decisions that affect traditional understanding of sovereignty, alliances and the use of power. Nearly all the signposts have changed. I look at some of the conflict dynamics of…
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The terms of reference and other details of the commission then
"reset the expectations that we have"
Remarks by Rep. Brain Mast (R-FL), Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, in support of the U.S.-South Africa Bilateral Relations Review Act of 2025 (H.R.2633).