Kwa-Zulu Natal is a Indian-African race relations powder keg that has been ignored for decades, as it served the ideological intents of Apartheid. The in-ANC history on the Natal Indian Congress and the ANC show deep seated fissures in the process that led to the 'collaboration pact' against a state [...]

     Stable democracies are products of the quality of administrations that undergird them. It is the follow through that comes out of bureaucratic efficiency which makes policies of competitive nations to stay ahead of the rest. In fact, even dictatorships depend on their bureaucracies to stay afloat. South Africa [...]

 The 2016 local government results in the metropolitan municipalities of Tshwane, Johannesburg, Ekhurhuleni, and Nelson Mandela Bay have brought home the glimpse of the possibility of imagining South Africa without the ANC as a governing party. All four municipalities represent a diverse character of South Africa, they include the manufacturing [...]

  Society's experience of politics is local. The prize of good politics is the control of government as an agency of the state. In the local sphere of government, municipalities are an agency of the local state, and how they govern represents the sum total of how society experiences government. [...]

  September 30 marks the end of South Africa's public service month and ushers in the National Book Month. I celebrated the 30th of September with Titus Mafolo, a public servant who served with his literary skills as advisor to President Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of launching his three [...]

  As the South African Association of Public Administration and Management holds its annual conference with a focussed discussion of professionalisation of the Public Service, the Mandela-Mbeki Public Service mandarins were in the same week launching an Association of Former Directors Generals (AfDGs). Addressed by the Minister of Public Service and [...]

The African National Congress launched its elections manifesto for the November 1 local government elections on 27th September 2021. The theme of the manifesto is 'Building Better Communities Together'. Whilst the elections are about the household bread and butter issues, as well as citizen primary reception with the hospitality of [...]

 I have been asked by many a friends on whether I would be voting the ANC or not. Some even went to an extent of reading my blog posts to being a sign of my political 'doctrinal' shift, given the personal history some know I have with the ANC. In [...]

 I have just finished reading a book on reinventing capitalism. One of the striking revelation about capitalism is the power of price to aggregate information about a commodity into a figure. That figure captures all and/or most dimensions of the product in ways that the product itself becomes passive in the [...]

 A stable order is a rare thing in the world. The idea of freedom in South Africa remains the most illusive of Democratic experiments that emerged from a negotiated settlement. In negotiating the enfranchisement of Blacks from 1990 to 1996, and when a Constitutional Democratic Constitution was adopted, the Liberation [...]