Upon assuming office as the fifth President of South Africa for its sixth administration, President Ramaphosa in his State of the Nation Address to Parliament announced a new service delivery approach modeled around the centrality of the District (and Metropolitan) Municipal jurisdiction as the focal space within which [...]

     The African National Congress is facing a national elective conference in December 2022. The contestations for leadership of Africa's oldest 'liberation movement' have begun, interests will define new political fiends, factional templates will change, professional lobbyists will descend on our shores, and thinking will soon start reflecting encumbrances. In [...]

     The reality of a post-flood disaster in KwaZulu-Natal is an inevitability all of South Africa should start dealing with. The management of the disaster that befalls society is a public affairs management endeavor whose outcome redefines life, livelihoods, and their attendant faculties into posterity. The scope and reach [...]

     For a while, the South African thinking and ideational community has been debating, including in muted tones, whether the stubbornness of the economy to grow sufficient enough to allow new and historically excluded entrants is responsible for calls that the transformation which has happened was not as radical [...]

     There is a growing narrative that the recent conferences of the ANC, notably the Mpumalanga provincial and the eThekwini regional conferences signal a shift in support for Ramaphosa, this blog piece argues there are in fact shifts in his favour than many would notice. However, this narrative might [...]

     The political war for the soul of the ANC is indeed a never-ending one. In an in-ANC election year, the contest to be in charge of the hegemonic power that comes with being in its leadership intensifies. Where the first battle is going to be is a conundrum [...]

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

    The eminent promulgation of regulations to manage conditions of epidemics and pandemics without the necessity of declaring a national state of disaster has evoked many an emotion in society. Whilst these regulations are published for public comment with the possibility of them being amended to accommodate society's perspectives, the [...]

     Litigation of government decisions, the challenge of foreign policy, usurping of local government functions through court orders, blatant attack on non-racialism policies in education, the open establishment of parallel education facilities based on language rights and threats to secede from South Africa by the Western Cape right; there [...]

       In his address to ANC members in the Western Cape, President Mbeki said "the task we have set ourselves as part of the renewal is to strengthen the ANC so that ...it can play (the) role ... to help us achieve the changes that are required". He [...]