THIS IS THE UNEDITED VERSION OF AN ARTICLE THAT APPEARED IN THE SUNDAY TIMES OF 12 MAY 2024, page 17. The sight of a post-apartheid South African flag burning in your lounge through a national news agency should have evoked emotions of disdain and insult in a state that has a [...]
"It is certainly easy to be wise after the event, and yet this facile wisdom is sometimes illuminating; for life, after all, is a game of blindman’s buff or a horse race in which some dark horse is always the winner", writes Arnold Toynbee in his 1934 rendition on the [...]
Asked about the disciplinary hearing of Jacob Zuma, one of his former allies, who enjoys the respect of Zuma, former Deputy President David Mabuza, responded by indicating that the process should be allowed to run its entire course. He hints that the evidence and counter evidence at the hearing will [...]
Until the suspension or firing of Khumalo as the official leader of the MK Party, the party's true character was shrouded in mystery. Zuma's move to position himself as the party's linchpin starkly reflected the widespread dissatisfaction with the post-NASREC 2017 renewal program. The MK Party, with its carefully chosen [...]
Published in the Sunday Times on 01 May 2024 and the Business Day 01 May 2024As our country is in the last laps of selecting leaders from what is on offer, we are saddened to learn of the passing of Ntate Sam Motsuenyane. A thoroughbred from a cohort of leaders [...]
Published on 28 April 2024 in the Sunday TimesListening to President Thabo Mbeki on the occasion of the launch of a book about the ANC Today letters issued in his name and on the eve of the 30th anniversary of RSA freedom, it became apparent that his recall or departure [...]
Published in the Sunday Tines on 23 April 2024The responsibility of liberating a nation from an oppressive system like apartheid remains that of revolutionaries, activists, and conscientious members of society. Naturally, one organisation or institution will emerge as the leader of society in the management of the struggle system, and [...]
At the launch of the ANC in 1912, the unity of African Tribes and the exclusion of Africans defined and determined the political history of what became the Republic of South Africa. The ultimate prize of establishing a Native Congress was to guarantee enfranchisement and representation in the emerging architecture of [...]
THE THINC FOUNDATION PUBLISHES THIS CITATION FOR DR PHEKO BY THAMI KA PLAATJIE, FORMER PAN-AFRICANIST LEADER, IN HONOUR OF DR MOTSOKO PHEKO, WHO PASSED ON 19th APRIL, 2024.Speaking on the occasion of his doctoral graduation ceremony in 1946, Dr B. W. Vilakazi ( after whom the Vilakazi street in Soweto [...]
The post–2021 government by coalition landscape in RSA was primarily created by an opposition complex that played to its strengths. The opposition sees ANC's dislodgement from the governing party status as an opportunity in the coalition government chaos. The opposition complex leaders are exploiting and escalating the growing discontent with the [...]
