The 2021 Municipal Elections are in full force, and political parties are contesting for the support of South Africans in their 278 municipalities. The contest is in fact in 8 Metropolitan Municipalities, 44 District Municipalities, and 226 Local Municipalities. At a granular level the contest is for well over 4 [...]

  I was invited to a dinner with UNISA’s Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Professor Puleng LenkaBula. This was, I suppose, one of the stakeholder engagement processes she had embarked upon to introduce herself-in-the-office to various establishments that may or will be critical to the success or otherwise of her tenure at UNISA. [...]

The purpose of voting in a democracy is to, amongst others, allow voters to influence, at least, who ultimately gets to use ‘public power’ and ‘all that the state monopolises’ to determine sovereign human destinies. In South Africa, this right to vote has been equated to the ultimate means of [...]

  A democracy is a manifestation of the society that created it. As an arrangement with which a society has agreed to reconcile its conflictual interests and priorities, a democracy is a reflection of the deeper dynamics in a society. It is in fact a referendum of the ideational emotions [...]