In 2016 at a provincial conference of the South African Democratic Teachers Union, delegates erupted into a song that would define President Cyril Ramaphosa's march to Luthuli House in 2017. The song called him to 'phakama as the time had come for him to lead'. Symbolic to the [...]
On 11 February 1990, South Africa, and the world witnessed one of the most epochal events in human history, the release of Nelson Mandela from prison. This was the most symbolic of acts by the then apartheid state that they were committed to the irreversibility of a [...]
The South African politics and political analysis academic media complex is faced with the intricate question of what would constitute a centre of politics. For a while, the battle to dislodge the ANC as the context of all political contexts, given its historical advantage of successfully leading the [...]
It was not just a British Royal Funeral; it was the laying to rest of the noblest of the order of the gutter. The United Kingdom buried its longest-serving monarch as it introduced into the posterity of that power, King Charles III, as the Supreme Defender of The [...]
South Africa has for a while been grappling with how to make in-ANC political trends to be just about the ANC. The battle to discount the ANC as the context of all contexts has been ongoing in hegemonic spaces, almost equal to the establishment of liberal [...]
Post-liberation mid-course evaluation of South Africa is here. The state has a legitimate government system. A constitutional democratic order with profound liberal order characteristics is theoretically in place and practically under construction. Systems that undergird it are a cultural necessity out of which the order's norms and standards [...]
South Africa became a Constitutional democracy in 1910 after a non-blacks-only consensus to establish a State whose sovereignty would be defined within the context of being a colonial outpost of Britain. This began a process of consolidating political power and decision-making into a National Legislature, supported by an [...]
The African National Congress prides itself as one of the best consultative democracy heritage sites in the world. As an organisation it has mastered how to bring together its members around a program of policy discourse and development with a view to influence and lead society. It is a heritage [...]
The liberation struggle in South Africa has had vaguely defined ends if the core policy documents instructing the outcomes attained at its 'breakthrough' moment in 1994 are anything to go by. Incubated in one of Africa's foremost liberal democracy pursuing political parties, the ANC, the negotiations settlement outcome [...]
"At the king’s command, they removed from the quarry(D) large blocks of high-grade stone(E) to provide a foundation of dressed stone for the temple. The craftsmen of Solomon and Hiram(F) and workers from Byblos(G) cut and prepared the timber and stone for the building of the temple." 1 Kings 5: [...]
