Smangaliso Mkhatshwa (Fr.) The elections in Zim have come and gone. I want to suggest why ZanuPF won and defeated the MDC coalition. The November military coup was effected with panache. Its leaders are steeped in the ZanuPF ideology and highly educated. They are not your usual rifle-toting power mongers. [...]
“We cannot feel that we understand a thing until we can give an account of the causes and its modus operandi” Aristotle. The purpose of higher education in society is amongst others to give ‘a person a clear conscious view of his opinions and judgements, a truth in developing them, [...]
The announcement by the South African National Cabinet that it will be invoking Section 100 (1) (b) of the Constitution of South Africa to address the ‘apparent crisis’ in the North West Province, particularly in the health sector, has brought the use of the section onto the sharp edge of [...]
Heritage is an embodiment of a past we wish to take into our future without losing the benefits of a changing present. It defines not only a sense of belonging, it makes the past a form of the present and an abstraction of what a future will look like with [...]
The leadership succession process in the ANC, arguably South Africa’ and Africa’s most influential political coalition by any standards, is in full swing. The nomination process by branches of the ANC, the often overrated ‘basic units’ of decision making in the ANC, is underway. Branches of the ANC are nominating [...]
The 2016 local government elections have come and gone. The results have been released by what is arguably the most efficient elections management agency in the developing world, the IEC. Political analysts and statisticians are now grappling with the implications of the numbers and how these are reflective of the [...]
The election of Jacob Zuma, as President of the ANC in 2007 at its 53rd Conference, remains one of the most openly contested electoral process the ANC has experienced since its banning. His recall as Deputy President of the country, and at a time when the ANC was facing an [...]
The ANC is once again getting into a succession discourse. The contest for political power within the ANC, if you like, its unofficial ‘primaries’ before the 2019 national elections, is in full swing. The contest will continue the despoliation of the ANC’s liberation movement character without introducing in its stead [...]
The ANC’s succession debate has again taken centre stage in the analysis of all manner of discourse in South Africa. The contest for political power is now firmly within the ANC domain. Opposing factions have once again concretised around personalities and not ‘policy positions’ and ‘promises for change’ even within [...]
Freedom celebration is an important aspect of nation building that cannot be left only to annual Union Buildings festivities, but should be deliberately weaved as a national project. The ‘dual’ history of South Africa often characterised as white and black history compounds the quest for a national meaning of freedom. [...]
