On a fateful Thursday, November 21, 1985, South Africa witnessed one of the brutal massacres that decorated the being of a country called South Africa, in a township called Mamelodi. Then a nest of political activism that could have been the birthplace of the South African Youth Congress, which was [...]

   According to Ken Owen who is a former editor of The Sunday Times, F.W. de Klerk was brought to the negotiating table by “the bankruptcy of a nation that had been looted until it could no longer honour its debts”? Owen goes on to argue that we “owe our [...]

In a response to the FW de Klerk Tribute that was written on the Thinc Blog, by myself, a question was asked “Prof Khalanga. I think that both *** and *** comments might have had an unintended effect: that of closing the discussion. But I wish to engage openly on this [...]

  As we reminiscence on leadership challenges of our country, and pontificate what to do next, we are saddened to hear of the passing-on of one of Africa’s Noble Peace Price laureates, FW de Klerk, the last President of Apartheid South Africa, and its first post-Apartheid Deputy President.  In the [...]