The ANC 55th Conference is getting close, the contest for leading Africa's oldest liberation movement is hotting up, policy rhetoric less defines the future of the liberation promise, the long-awaited final Zondo report is out, and recommendations are with the head of the national executive in whom [...]
In societies, interest groups would routinely contend to shape perspectives of the national interest, and convince 'rulers' to adopt their preferred policies. The influence of strategic solidarity groups on policy positions in South Africa has for a while proven to work for those that can finance [...]
The day before Father's Day has been declared by me as a day that I will spend with all those children that meet the criteria to be grandchildren of me as their Big Daddy. This year 2022 was the inaugural Big Daddy Day, I invited my grandchildren [...]
That time when Fathers are foregrounded for praise, honor, and veneration has arrived, Sunday, June 19 is Father's Day. It is a day in which society pauses and says to its fathers, thank you for being who you are. For some, it is about reminiscing about [...]
Among the collateral damage of the 'Phala Phala Farmgate' is the stability of our democracy. Logic dictates or insists that the pursuit of interests, which are the currency of politics, trumps higher ideals, such as the commitment to in-party comradeship, the sanctity of solidarity, and the [...]
Followership, a capacity or willingness to follow a leader, is a new area of focus for an inquisition by humanity, especially when leadership is increasingly becoming a burden to the peace that humanity perpetually yearns for. The rise and growth of civil society movements and politically unencumbered social [...]
The African National Congress was formed in 1912 by a cohort of middle and land owning class including educated native Africans in the geographical space then called the Union of South Africa. Educated in foreign universities and some coming from Royal houses, they came together to [...]
The ANC's integrity management system which seems to have supplanted its disciplinary committee-driven management of membership integrity has to date proven to be effective to the extent that it remains supported. The new system is based on members volunteering themselves into the process and soliciting the advice [...]
The re-election of a Ramaphosa-type leader in the December 2022 ANC National Elective Conference might be a turning point in the growth and maturation of the South African democratic experiment. It might bring some closure to a chapter of an ANC that seem to have not embraced [...]
Corruption, State Capture, and sheer poor leadership pleasure by those that can make a difference to change the course that South Africa finds itself, is getting to pandemic proportions. This has indeed landed the governing party, the ANC, in fact, the entire governing and ruling elite, including [...]
