The COVID19 pandemic death wave has smash and grabbed again. It broke into the home of Dr John Tibane and robbed his family of a father they knew God the almighty through. It removed from our earth a brain whose reach has gone beyond what his voice could reach.John Tibane [...]
Establishing a human rights-anchored Constitutional Democracy remains one of the unique 'freedom guaranteeing legacies the Mandela cohort of Parliamentarians, leadership complex, and thinkers had bequeathed to posterity. The isolation of each citizen into a human with rights protected and enshrined in the Constitution has not only subjugated organs of state [...]
The sentencing of Jacob Zuma, a significant figure in South African politics, has far-reaching implications. As he faces a 15-month jail term and becomes a subject of planning at correctional services, the focus shifts to the impact of this sentence on our fragile democracy and the functioning of our legal [...]
Democracy is supposed to be the arrangements with which society has agreed to govern itself. These arrangements are codified into laws and regulations through which society reconciles the conflicting interests of the individual members of society. How these interests aggregate into an acceptable policy position, generally coded as law, is [...]
Former ANC President Mbeki has penned a document to the effect that the ANC should not amend Section 25 of the Constitution in its quest to pave way for its National Conference resolution that directs ‘expropriation without compensation’, as a land restitution strategy. President Mbeki titles his document 'suggestions on [...]
A South American scholar, Unger, defines democracy as the arrangements by which society agrees to govern itself or each other. In this definition, he introduces the notion that if it fits that society, it is its democracy. The Chinese, on the other hand, have, over centuries, been thinking and designing a [...]
Bra Jabu Mabuza was a quintessential South African who combined the world of practical entrepreneurship, street wisdom, profoundly connecting networking skills, and the finesse of 'wat bang'. He rose to his stature through hard work and understanding of a relationship between own energy and output. In his short life he became [...]
The National Society for Black Engineers will be in a breakfast meeting with the Minister of Water Affairs and Sanitation on Friday, 18th June 2021. The breakfast provides an opportunity for the NSBE to dialogue with the Minister, and potentially get a members-only response to the ongoing tensions between Black [...]
The coronavirus has redefined the entirety of how humanity relates with itself, the environment and each other. Almost all arrangements that humanity devised to deal with economics, politics, science and technology, commerce, and education have been redefined. It has accelerated humanity into a world that was imagined, thus changing how [...]
Jaa Neh! South Africa is standing on an economic quicksand that threatens to have it defined as a failed state. Its 'fearful trip' might have begun. It is in a state where thinking about how it reimagines itself is as equally important as doing what needs to be done to [...]
