The debt of humanity to nature seems to be only payable through death. How nature comes back to us and makes a demand for our exit from its eternal peace, is what humanity has been unable to predict and control. We are thus all in a natural space [...]
WHAT IS CULTURAL HERITAGE Cultural heritage is something of value, something handed down to us from previous generations. It carries the stamp of those who came before us. This is inherited property. It is inherited for its historic, cultural, or natural significance. The heritage can either be physical artifacts such as [...]
William Shakespeare submits that “all the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts”. In this submission, Shakespeare speaks of the theatrical quality of our social life as human beings inside [...]
In his contribution to the theory of dictatorship, Ernst Fraenkel, a NAZI Germany’s era legal mind introduces the concept of duality in a previously troubled State. He introduces the concepts of a Normative State, which he explains as one where the rule of law regulates the allocative power of the [...]
COVID19 has become a departure point for many an analysis about governance, economies, the global order, and even family life. High impact and academic journals are clogged with a variety of articles purporting to be crystal balling into a post-COVID19 world. The rush might be inspired by humanity’s innate character [...]
INTRODUCTION As government battles the scourge of COVID-19, and results of mass testing are dripping in, education as one of the key systems that drive sustainable development, emerges as an area that needs more work for any post-COVID19 reconstruction to undergird long-term societal resilience. The unprecedented early lockdown announced by [...]
The advent of a post-COVID 19 world is an inevitability all of us should start dealing with. The management of the crises through the pandemic is a public affairs management project whose outcome will redefine life and its attendant faculties into posterity. The speed and reach of the virus to [...]
COVID-19 has in South Africa brought to bear Laski’s assertion that ‘a State divided into a small number of rich (monopolistic) and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property’. Laski’s statement centres inequality as an [...]
A stable order is a rare thing in the world. The idea of freedom in South Africa remains the most elusive of Democratic experiments that emerged from a negotiated settlement, as opposed to those that settled through a after war treaty. In negotiating the enfranchisement of Bantu Blacks from 1990 [...]
Response letter to the FW de Klerk statement on apartheid as a crime against humanity. Dr FW De Klerk The FW De Klerk Foundation P. O. Box 15785 Panorama 750616 February 2020 Dear Dr De Klerk, MY RESERVATIONS ON THE FWDK FOUNDATION’S STATEMENT: APARTHEID A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY In my [...]
