It was in 2004, on a sweltering night in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). We were sitting in one of the only two good hotels that had survived the destruction of war when Kabila senior led his troops in the march to Kinshasa [...]
In the aftermath of the 54th ANC Conference in NASREC, and since Cyril Ramaphosa has ascended as President of the ANC, the South African democratic order has for a while been defined by resurgences of in-ANC factional fights. Firing the first salvo to the rivalry was the [...]
Poetry is "literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm". Through poetry, the different shades of humanity can be displayed through rhythm and language. Human imagination becomes art through poetry. Lines [...]
Some people live for themselves, and there are those who live because of others. And some would make it their business to create things only to advance humanity. Similarly, there are business persons who get into enterprises because they want to make good of the world of fellow [...]
The notable rise of China into a development behemoth and the World's leading growth-driven economy has often conflicting theories posited to justify it. Fundamental to the Chinese outlook on their success is their "belief in performance legitimacy". Etched in their intellectual tradition, China has approached its rise [...]
The secret about political transitions is that they work when the interests of the outgoing leadership and those of the incoming do not seem to conflict. While there is, in the eyes of the public, a semblance of an amicable agreement interior to the political space, but the [...]
The African National Congress is two months away from its electoral conference. The potential far-reaching policy implications to South Africa and the sub-continent is greater. Although it is complex to predict the ultimate outcome at this stage, there are clear indications of what is at stake beyond the rhetoric [...]
When society expects turkeys to vote for Christmas and go further to appoint turkeys to be the elections authority, you know that society has lost its bearings, and all that holds its wheels is disintegrating. Such is of an organization which believes it has partners in the then enemy camp [...]
The excitement at the uncharacteristic wholesale replacement of a Ramaphosa-era inaugural ESKOM board with a new and mid-political-first term must be welcomed with caution and more profound questions. While its timing looks like a response to societal calls for change at ESKOM, the fundamental question is 'to what [...]
Nelson Mandela declared, " the time comes in the life of any nation when there remain only two choices – submit or fight. That time has now come in South Africa. We shall not submit, and we have no choice but to hit back by all means in [...]
