The influence of civil society bodies and movements committed to truncating the post-1994 political economy gains in South Africa is inexorably rising and on the verge of defining the ‘liberation movement’ complex out of relevance. These bodies have become the largest magnets of non-political party funding that has political economy [...]

When EDI Holdings was established as a company to begin the transformation of the electricity industry, the ideational construct was to ‘unbundle’ the industry into generation, transmission and distribution. EDI Holdings would be modelled as a company holding majority shareholding in six regional electricity distribution companies (REDS), demarcated to be [...]

The resilience of an organisation is a function of its systems. The more an organisation introduces in its working systems what can be repetitive and scaled beyond its centre, the better a resilient entity it will become. The African National Congress was formed in the wake of a deliberate exclusion [...]

The establishment of institutions is more about creating embodiments of societal leadership than having them for their own sake. The ability of a human being to travel from one end of the globe to the other with no need to ask for directions is a stark reminder that systems and [...]