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What is RiskRecon?
RiskRecon brings together unique knowledge and experience, to help solve challenges decision makers, and organisations, experience as a result of the hyper-complexity, and uncertainty, that characterise contemporary market conditions.
In response, RiskRecon provides a spectrum of unique, and specialised executive consulting services anchored in social, economic, political, local- and global market risk-opportunity analysis.
RiskRecon aims to empower clients with strategies, information & analysis, specialised research, and comprehensive advice with the goal of overcoming uncertainty. The goal is to turn emerging risks on their head, and into opportunities. As outlined in our Services & Solutions, RiskRecon offers much more.
The RiskRecon ‘difference’
RiskRecon understands that local and global business, non-governmental organisations, and state entities require cool heads, creative/adaptive thinking, and a fresh approach to understanding complex socio-political, and economic dynamics that impact on strategy, operations, and ultimately delivery/success.
RiskRecon revolutionises risk analysis by accepting that the turbulent twenties of the twenty-first century ushered in a period of sustained systemic disequilibrium, accompanied by myriad asymmetric risks, conflicts, and fault-lines emerging.
To this end RiskRecon developed a new, and revolutionary approach to risk analysis, focused on four dimensions of market realities.
This means RiskRecon’s ability to understand operational environments, market dynamics, policy and regulatory environments, societal trends, political phenomena, and how these impact on organisations and businesses, is its distinguishing feature. In uncertain times, decision makers require fact driven, incisive, and strategic support – this is what RiskRecon can offer you.
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Why the securocratic response to the 20 March, 2023, national shutdown is problematical
Dr Kingsley Makhubela interviewed by the SABC (16 March, 2023) on the EFF call for a national shutdown. In the interview he questions the securocratic

Implications of recent high-level visits by the USA, EU, and Russian Federation to South Africa
Dr Makhubela interviewed by SABC (29 January, 2023) on three high-profile visits to South Africa by Russian Foreign Minister – Sergei Lavrov, the EU foreign

RiskRecon comment on Russia-China-South Africa joint naval exercise
Dr Makhubela interviewed by SABC on the forthcoming joint naval exercises between South Africa, Russia, and China. https://youtu.be/7mf2wjo2caE

Preview: Emerging New World (dis)Order Preface
Especially for RiskRecon friends, followers, and associates – a preview of Emerging New World (dis)Order’s Preface… Emerging New World (dis)Order By Dr Kingsley Makhubela, Dr

No political buy-in to finalise process to amend South African electoral laws
SABC interview with Dr Makhubela, 15 January, 2023, on delays in the parliamentary process to amend electoral law. This follows on the Constitutional Court ruling

Global risk outlook for 2023
ENCA interview with Dr Makhubela on global risk outlook for 2023

Taking stock of ten months of the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Dr Makhubela takes stock of ten months of the Russia-Ukraine conflict – 6 December, 2022 – ENCA

Leadership Magazine Review of Emerging New World (dis)Order
Leadership Magazine reviews RiskRecon’s recently released eBook – Emerging New World (dis)Order Leadership Magazine, November 2022, Edition 443, extracts ten core ideas from RiskRecon’s ebook

ENCA interview with Dr Makhubela on terror alert issued by US embassy in South Africa
US Embassy issues terror alert for Sandton, Johannesburg – Analysis on ENCA by Dr Makhubela (27-10-22)

Announcing eBook – Emerging New World (dis)Order – NOW AVAILABLE
Emerging New World (dis)Order: local and global risks of systemic disintegration, state failure, and state collapse We are excited to announce! -> Emerging New World

Uganda pays DRC for war damages: remembering Rwanda’s 1994 genocide and Africa’s First World War (1998-2003)
Uganda pays DRC for war damages: remembering the Rwandan genocide and Africa’s First World War (1998-2003) This month Dr de Kock’s Blindspot column in Leadership

Tackling the ‘foreign’ coalition government dilemma in South Africa – Kingsley Makhubela in City Press
Kingsley Makhubela | Tackling the ‘foreign’ coalition government dilemma in SA (City Press, 12 October, 2022) Political grandstanding is a factor that should not be

US drone strike in Somalia kills Al-Shabaab co-founder – time to re-assess global security strategy in the Horn of Africa
SABC interview with Dr Makhubela on US drone strike killing Al-Shabaab co-founder The Somali conflict, one of Africa’s longest running, and most complex conflicts, erupted

Eurasia and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation – makings of a ‘new world order’?
ENCA interview with Dr Makhubela on the recently concluded Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit

How Dialogue & Discourse died – Dr de Kock’s Blindspot Column in Leadership Magazine (Sept ’22)
How dialogue and discourse died: the case of Cold War 2.0 and a lesson from a former Iranian President The Blindspot column by Dr de

Global Cannabis Times features RiskRecon profile on SA investment potential
Eyes on South Africa – Smoke & Dagga: courts opened the door for cannabis, President Ramaphosa is poised to kick it down Published in the