Personal Growth as Professional Power: How Going Back to Study Transforms the Way You Show Up at Work Mahlatse Ragolane (researcher, academic and Manager for the Centre of Excellence at Regent Business School) Growth rarely announces itself with fanfare. More often, it begins as a quiet restlessness, a sense that who you are at work no longer matches who you could become. In this thought-provoking piece, Mahlatse Ragolane explores how returning to study reshapes not only skills and knowledge, but confidence, perspective and professional identity itself. Blending contemporary research with lived experience, he traces how reflection, continual learning and academic rigour translate into sharper strategic thinking, bolder leadership and greater impact in the workplace. Ragolane brings this insight from a position of deep credibility. As a researcher, academic and Manager for the Centre of Excellence at Regent Business School, as well as a DBA candidate actively engaged in governance, educ...
[Image: Vukuzenzele] Lurnay Tshabalala-Mavuso | Senior Reporter | 08 January 2026 It is was on the 19th of November 2025 when the South African Police Services in Duduza, received a complaint from Pholosong Hospital where a 2 year old toddler was brought to the hospital by his mother. The 20 year old mother alleged that she had given her son snacks which she had laced with poison and had also eaten from the same packet of snacks in an attempt to commit suicide. In her attempt to commit suicide she did not succeed, but instead was admitted into hospital for medical treatment, while her child did not survive the poisoning. While she was receiving medical care, the detectives at Duduza police station were working day and night to gather all the information regarding the death of the two year old who was laid to rest in November. On Monday, 22nd of December 2025 upon receiving the news that the 20 year ol...