One of the readings that I visited as part of the project I am currently busy with is Professor Mahmood Mamdani’s book ‘Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities’ (2020). The book helps one navigate some of the complex questions that confront us today, What [...]

   As we reminiscence on the closing of the curtain by a cohort of leadership in our country and the World, we are saddened to hear about the passing on of one of Africa’s epitome of leadership, Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu, the former Archbishop of the Anglican Church of the [...]

   The Covid-19 pandemic has wrecked havoc to many a human system and ways of life that humanity will emerge beyond it with new behaviours and an altered civilisation. The greatest of human socialisation institutions where norms, values, and mores are transmitted to each other and modelled for the next [...]

   The Constitution of South Africa directs that ‘in the Republic, government is constituted as national, provincial, and local spheres of government which are distinctive, interdependent, and interrelated. All spheres of government and all organs of state within each sphere must observe and adhere to principles of co-operative government’. Amongst others [...]