Oftentimes humanity goes through relationships that generate enduring affection, esteem, intimacy, trust, and feelings of safety around other humans. Upon landing on earth, through parents, particularly our moms, we arrive at humanity's primary reception committee, and when you are fortunate you find the reception committee in its ideal [...]
In explaining the importance of a trust relationship, a South African scholar tells of a story where a child would jump from an elevated position into the arms of a parent because the child trusts that the parent won't shift or fail to catch him or her. [...]
When dealing with non-state, or non-governmental corruption, including state capture, the South African academic media complex, its analyst community, and policymakers are typically employing a vocabulary or posture of non-engagement or outright silence. On the contrary when there are similar, or less impactful to the economy corruption stories, involving [...]
The African National Congress, as its name says was conceptualized as one of the most institutionalized responses to the institutionalization of imperialism and colonialism into a constitutional construct. At the turn of the 20th Century, and after a brutal non-black war about who has the right to [...]
Branch delegate purchase at conferences, manipulation of credentials at conferences to engineer election outcomes, funding of slates by the criminal underworld to create a better political environment for its existence, dearth of policy discourse at sub-national conferences, prerogative or arbitrary disbandment of organizational structures such as the woman's [...]
The resurfacing of urine and urinating at yet another of the historically white, and exclusively Afrikaner University, is a coded message about the maturity of our social cohesion if any at all. Watching the video, listening to its content, searching for condemnation from civil society movements that [...]
In December 2022, South Africa will emerge from one of its consequential in-ANC elective conferences, the 55th National Conference. At stake will be both the form and content that the ANC will take, with Ramaphosa's bid for a second term representing the ultimate of its contested form, and [...]
It is inevitable that wealth and power, the motive force for most tensions and conflicts affecting humanity, are moving away from their dispossession-determined locations in South Africa. The apartheid colonial order is giving way to one increasingly crafted by a new cohort of self-determined and purpose-driven South Africans [...]
The booing off the stage of Ramaphosa in Rustenburg is a paradigm shift on the scale of a head of state recall we saw in recent times. It was the dignity of the Office of the President that was also booed, by supporters of a governing alliance whose [...]
For a while, the politics of South Africa have been in an antithesis mode about almost everything. The last time we were in a thesis mode as a society, it was about what should our democratic future and order be. This was a time when we innovated what is [...]
