When we are born we are seldom being given cues that should guide our lives in an almost unconscious way. We are taught many an elementary skills whose applications occur in our lives as a normality we have even forgotten we were taught if not modelled to live. Some of [...]

In his poetry book, a South African poet writes, Because we know not the clouds The rain is a stranger to us Rivers are flowing past usOur buckets are empty, we thirstGardens are dry and dying; Yet it continues to rain on usIn his rendition, he interprets rain in the absence of clouds as [...]

 The ANC is one of the most influential political movements on the continent. As a construct, it presides as and over a political coalition of communists, capitalists, tribalists, nationalists, and everything in the bread church, as the Zondo Commission has shown what else is inside. Armed with a mandate to [...]

Former President Jacob Zuma has been sentenced to 15 months imprisonment for contempt of the Constitutional Court. He retires into history as the first Head of State ever, of the geographical space called South Africa, to be sentenced to a jail term. He will also be the first high profile [...]

In a conversation between Blessing Mphela and Squire Mahlangu about the State of the ANC, a number of insights emerged. These indicated the expanding dearth of an organisation that might be living in the shadow of its glorious past. An organisation that might be feeding itself off its own, it [...]

In his first speech to Parliament in 1994, 'multi-racial' South Africa's First President, Nelson Mandela, dedicated few seconds to deal with fundamental symbols of abaNTU subjugation that continue to exist to date. In his speech he said "We must end racism in the workplace as part of our common offensive [...]

O death with your dearthYou birth sorrows with arrow precisionYou collect the best amongst usYou rest the wanted as you leave the restYou still steal as we still expect moreYou create centers of interaction out of sorrowYes you are death and you dearth discoursesAs we see you we know we [...]

The African National Congress, arguably the nexus of all political life in South Africa, is in the midst of a demand by history for one of its most consequential review since its formation. History has bestowed on its entire existence the obligation to be a leader of society in a [...]

The events that followed the incarceration of Jacob Zuma are continuing to raise more questions than answers as the governing centre tries to have a relationship with the truth or otherwise behind the causes. The emerging consensus seems to be about finding a mast upon which those events can be [...]

There is an interesting, and yet revealing, debate or discourse which is concretising the fault lines of the divisions at the core of our constitutional democracy. Cabinet, the apex institution embedding our national executive authority is sending different messages of what happened in the aftermath of Jacob Zuma's arrest. If [...]