Basic political theory teaches that individuals are components of interests. They are embodiments of the diversities in society upon which politics are generally based. Their sovereign character as okindividuals makes them not simply puppets of interests but can operate as nodes of sponsored blocks of interests. With accumulated social, political, [...]

The decision by South Africa to stick its neck out in what will go in history as its second anti-apartheid frontier is important beyond the Nelson Mandela directive that "our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians." The ICJ case will subject South Africa, and the ANC in [...]

The launch of the uMkhonto we Sizwe political party has upended the normality of established electoral politics. As the liberal establishment is consolidating a consensus on the possibility of a liberal right coalition government, the politics of the historically marginalised are also consolidating into an anti-establishment bloc. Consequently, the post-apartheid [...]

 One of the greatest miscarriages of apartheid South Africa was its inability to produce out-of-homeland leaders, men and women, who would enjoy the legitimacy to be entrusted with the comprehensive project of liberating South Africa. The African National Congress, because of its then hegemonic prowess and timeless monumental policy documents, [...]

 Published on 10 December 2023 in the Sunday Times.A study on the Black Middle-Class Report by the University of Cape Town in 2020 shows a dramatic growth in the black middle class, eclipsing that of the white middle class. It reflects on the segment’s significant and continued rise, the nuanced [...]

South African black business leaders have been decrying the post-1994 Establishment (mainly political) for not having been serious about Black Economic Empowerment. They argue that current efforts do or will not recalibrate the templates of economic participation, exclusion, and dominance. Notwithstanding the promulgation of a regulatory framework to advance BEE [...]

“Using metaphors and parables remains one of the greatest assets in the African education system. Supported by a rigorously used system of storytelling and the use of symbols, metaphors have for centuries provided indigenous scholarship about and for African civilisations. The intellectual resilience of African wisdom cues and philosophy-endowed idiomatic [...]

While the problem of leadership has always been the liberation movement's growing problem from a necessity point of view, it has now taken on the character of an inescapable concern. Through leadership quality, society can have a dialogue with itself about the future. Given that leaders are, and in a [...]

To the naked and innocent eye, the logic of the ANC's appeals on a debt collection issue puts the ANC in gross disrepute. It puts into question the calibre of leadership, especially the financial management capability, past and present, of the ANC on trial in a court of public opinion. [...]

The real narrative watermarked in all these dysfunctions of leadership and organisation is the collapse of the liberation movement leading South Africa. With all the pain that goes with it, South Africans are resigned to the reality of a post-ANC-as governing party dispensation, unless a miracle happens. The Tshwane and [...]