The normative shifts in the ANC to deal with the scourge of corruption should be cautiously welcomed, given the salient resurgence of dictatorship by the new normative coalition within the very ANC. It has become increasingly easy for political elites with intents to recapture a state from an otherwise discredited [...]
1. What is the possibility that some of the leaders we have, became ANC members because of their dislike or hatred of apartheid, but they do not necessarily like to be ANC members as persons2. Are all members of the ANC it’s members because of what it stands for, or [...]
The 1994 democratic breakthrough remains one of the greatest experiences our country has gone through. The mere presence of a released Mandela became the necessary opiate to tone our approach to the chiselling in of the nation’s liberation aspirations. The mandate to finalise the country’s Constitution as the bedrock of [...]
The scourge of corruption has been with post-liberation governments in Africa for as long as independence was gained from colonial masters. Corruption robbed the continent of its development potential and global competitive capacity. In almost all instances of corruption, it has been an in-public sector sub-vocation practised by members of [...]
As we reminisce on the Public Service as the index institution of leadership in the development of globally competitive nations, we are saddened to hear of the passing of the founding father of the South African post-apartheid Public Service Commission, Pof Stan Sangweni.Affectionately called Bra Stan, despite his visible elder [...]
"O President My President…Our fearful trip has begun…The prize we sought is diminishing”, writes a South African Poet. The fearful trip in the poem points to a journey towards a failed state. This cry fits the current state of the nation too well as there is growing evidence of public [...]
The events that followed the suspension in 2021 of the ANC's Secretary General, Ace Magashule, are not only m definitive of the ANC's future, but will at the same time redefine South Africa's politics as we know them. Beyond this suspension will be questions of what becomes of the ANC, [...]
We are experiencing the emergence of decisiveness by a cohort of leadership. The country is thrust into a new era of leaders making decisions. Without reflecting on the quality or otherwise of the decisions, as a society, we must applaud that they are at least taken. We know we have a rare [...]
The implementation of the African National Congress’s (ANC) National Conference, and later NEC, step aside resolution has put the governing party onto the most consequential review of its consequence management systems as they apply to its leadership and senior cadres deployed at various strategic centers of state management and government. [...]
In classical Guillaume Faye parlance and writing, the time might have come for the knowledgeable in South Africa to abandon the unanimous conspiracy of silence they have volunteered themselves into, purely because of a fear of being ideationally and/or otherwise marginalized from the oligopolistic academic-political-economy-media complex that followed the aftermath [...]
