Over the last decade, the debate on Black Economic Empowerment has been receiving heightened attention in respect of its impact, value, and contribution to the transformation and/or otherwise of the South African economy. Most analyses of BEE examine the interests and behaviour of the ‘power holders’, ‘the empowering agents’, and [...]

Smangaliso Mkhatshwa  (Fr.) The elections in Zim have come and gone. I want to suggest why ZanuPF won and defeated the MDC coalition. The November military coup was effected with panache. Its leaders are steeped in the ZanuPF ideology and highly educated. They are not your usual rifle-toting power mongers. [...]

“We cannot feel that we understand a thing until we can give an account of the causes and its modus operandi” Aristotle. The purpose of higher education in society is amongst others to give ‘a person a clear conscious view of his opinions and judgements, a truth in developing them, [...]

The announcement by the South African National Cabinet that it will be invoking Section 100 (1) (b) of the Constitution of South Africa to address the ‘apparent crisis’ in the North West Province, particularly in the health sector, has brought the use of the section onto the sharp edge of [...]