Dr FM Lucky Mathebula[1] South Africa is entering a dangerous moral and political moment. A legitimate debate about undocumented migration, border management and state capacity is being pulled into a darker terrain where language, surname, accent, dress and cultural origin are increasingly treated as evidence of foreignness. In this terrain, [...]
Introduction Corruption does not arrive wearing party colours. It follows money, nests where power is concentrated, and flourishes wherever accountability is weak. South Africa’s post-2024 political settlement has therefore placed a simple but uncomfortable test before the country: will we apply the same moral standard to everyone who exercises public [...]
The concerns raised about corruption, inequality and democratic drift are legitimate and must be confronted with seriousness. However, the democratic mandate must not be abandoned; it must be honoured through accelerated reform, institutional rebuilding and the renewal of the ANC as an instrument of service to the people. By Dr [...]
There are days that do not simply arrive on the calendar; they open old rooms inside us. Father’s Day is one of those days: a public occasion that becomes, almost immediately, a private reckoning. It asks us to remember not only the man who gave us a name, a bloodline, [...]
Dr FM Lucky Mathebula (Prof) Founder SRC President, 1985. Transvaal College of Education When the news of Sello Mpya (Jele), known to us with affection and familiarity as Two-Two, reached me, it arrived with the terrible finality by which a living presence is converted into memory. The sadness was not [...]
Dr FM Lucky Mathebula, 29 June 2010. This is a repost. The FIFA 2010 World Cup hosting by South Africa will go into history as an event that redefined the essence of being South African. The pre-June 11 preparations were to most of us seen within the prism of infrastructure [...]
As South Africa approaches another June 16 amid rising tension over undocumented foreign nationals, the country faces a test of political seriousness. Youth Day should not become a licence for nostalgia, denial or scapegoating. It should compel the state to confront a real migration challenge firmly, lawfully and without cruelty. [...]
Foreign nationals are already embedded in South Africa’s labour market, township commerce and urban life. Treating migration as a political slogan rather than an economic fact is not only a bad policy approach but bad economics. South Africa’s migration debate has become repetitive and unproductive. Public anger flares, foreign nationals [...]
