COVID-19 has in South Africa brought to bear Laski’s assertion that ‘a State divided into a small number of rich (monopolistic) and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property’. Laski’s statement centres inequality as an [...]

A stable order is a rare thing in the world. The idea of freedom in South Africa remains the most elusive of Democratic experiments that emerged from a negotiated settlement, as opposed to those that settled through a after war treaty. In negotiating the enfranchisement of Bantu Blacks from 1990 [...]

Response letter to the FW de Klerk statement on apartheid as a crime against humanity.  Dr FW De Klerk The FW De Klerk Foundation P. O. Box 15785 Panorama 7506 16 February 2020 Dear Dr De Klerk, MY RESERVATIONS ON THE FWDK FOUNDATION’S STATEMENT: APARTHEID A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY In [...]

The colonial history that defined South Africa remains one of the permanent watermarks in any analysis of whatever democratic order it ultimately settles with. The structural foundations of its state formation process are a further background of permanence for any concert of reforms and reconceptualisations of all arguments defining democraticness [...]