In his 08 January 2012 President Jacob Zuma spoke of an ANC that has been born out of a call for unity in diversity. In the same speech the President dealt with the heroic anti-colonial and later anti-apartheid struggle the ANC has waged against both a distant and a resident [...]

In one of his seminal speeches Martin Luther King Jnr warns society that “in the end, we will remember not the words (or noises) of our enemies, but the silences of our friends”. The ascendance of Mr Julius Malema to what is arguably the most powerful position to be held [...]

The ANC’s Polokwane Conference marked the beginning of in-ANC strife for the soul of the movement as the nexus of social, political and economic life in South Africa. It marked the beginning of a transition from a movement schooled in the principle of democratic centralism to a one that ‘must’ [...]

The notion of a nation-state has over the last decade undergone a process of rigorous review to an extent that society has now become complacent to discuss it as a base concept for political engagement and discourse. The preoccupation with the growing hegemony of dominant economies and established ‘nation-states’ as [...]