I have been asked by many a friends on whether I would be voting the ANC or not. Some even went to an extent of reading my blog posts to being a sign of my political ‘doctrinal’ shift, given the personal history some know I have with the ANC. In [...]

 I have just finished reading a book on reinventing capitalism. One of the striking revelation about capitalism is the power of price to aggregate information about a commodity into a figure. That figure captures all and/or most dimensions of the product in ways that the product itself becomes passive in the [...]

 A stable order is a rare thing in the world. The idea of freedom in South Africa remains the most illusive of Democratic experiments that emerged from a negotiated settlement. In negotiating the enfranchisement of Blacks from 1990 to 1996, and when a Constitutional Democratic Constitution was adopted, the Liberation [...]

One of the dividends of the 1994 democratic breakthrough is the elevation of heritage as a national asset worth celebrating and bringing aspects of the economy to a halt for its own sake.  What makes heritage real to a nation, in the end, is not just the splendid edifices at [...]