I remember the march vividly. I was there with the marchers, with a few comrades, the late Stanza Bopape, Akila, the late Cicerine Makhwere, the late Penny Mlahleki, Ting Ting Mlahleki amongst others. It started in Mamelodi East led by the chairperson of the Residents Organization, Louis Khumalo. As it proceeded [...]
On a fateful Thursday, November 21, 1985, South Africa witnessed one of the brutal massacres that decorated the being of a country called South Africa, in a township called Mamelodi. Then a nest of political activism that could have been the birthplace of the South African Youth Congress, which was [...]
According to Ken Owen who is a former editor of The Sunday Times, F.W. de Klerk was brought to the negotiating table by “the bankruptcy of a nation that had been looted until it could no longer honour its debts”? Owen goes on to argue that we “owe our [...]
In a response to the FW de Klerk Tribute that was written on the Thinc Blog, by myself, a question was asked "Prof Khalanga. I think that both *** and *** comments might have had an unintended effect: that of closing the discussion. But I wish to engage openly on this [...]
As we reminiscence on leadership challenges of our country, and pontificate what to do next, we are saddened to hear of the passing-on of one of Africa’s Noble Peace Price laureates, FW de Klerk, the last President of Apartheid South Africa, and its first post-Apartheid Deputy President. In the ilk [...]
The dictionary defines seed as 'a unit of reproduction, capable of developing into another'. A seed can grow into a new organism. It can survive for some time as a seed until it gets into conditions it could germinate into a new form. Its function or role is to [...]
Let's go back to the preposition of Mike Maile on qualifications because it might have long term implications on the character of the ANC primarily because the argument is premised on false generosity and does not help the ANC navigate complex challenges we have relating to governance. It's important that [...]
In the Republic, government is constituted as national, provincial, and local spheres of government which are distinctive, interdependent, and interrelated,' declares the South African Constitution. Officials, as organs of state, at the national and provincial spheres of government would now agree that their IGR portion of the Constitution is served, [...]
How do you celebrate a life of a person who represents the worst of your being and yet played midwife to the being you struggled to be. This is a South African question in the aftermath of the passing on of its first Deputy President in a non-racial democracy. [...]
The South African Public Service is in a crisis of being reduced into a terrain of in-ANC factional battles. The interference of party politics, especially the ANC, in the professional character of the Public Service is now a matter of public record, if court judgements are the minimum evidence [...]
