In his 2022 January 08 historic ANC annual state of the liberation movement speech, President Ramaphosa said  “The movement must, therefore, undergo a fundamental and lasting process of renewal and rebuilding if it is to remain the effective and trusted agent of change. This change must find particular resonance in [...]

      The idea of liberation in South Africa has entered its consequential crisis. Until recently, a conviction of the liberation movement reared cohort of South African politicians has been confined to the rhetoric of seeing anything and anyone wielding institutional power as an enemy of ‘the revolution’. That the [...]

       South Africa is going through a difficult period of redefining itself as a democracy beyond the rhetorics of its past conflicts and tensions. Almost thirty-five years since the Mandela-De Klerk Accord, whose processing went through the robust test of the CODESA negotiations and ultimately chronicled as the 1996 [...]

   Generations and/or age groups are agents of social change and carriers of ‘intellectual’ and organizational alternatives to the status quo. Generations, especially youth, have historically been sources or practical agents of opposition, rebellions, and revolutions, interrogating existing and established societal ideas, and demolishing the status quo, mostly through the [...]