Dr FM Lucky Mathebula (Prof)* Humanity has constantly been interrupted by its advances to upend the status quo established as the basis of coexistence with the self and the natural environment. The need to overcome time and distance is central to humanity’s pursuit of betterment. Speed to arrive, contact, complete, [...]

South Africa has undergone significant changes in the past three decades, and this transformation is set to continue in the next three. The trends that have shaped the country’s democratic, constitutional, and economic order will continue to influence its future. The urgency of addressing its troubled past, contested present, and [...]

When we completed our Secondary Teachers Diploma, together with two cohorts that followed us, at the Transvaal College of Education, and we later realised many other colleges, in 1986, we vowed to become force multipliers of the liberation struggle through the power of the chalk and chalkboard.  We left the [...]

There is a developing relationship between liberalism and the African National Congress. The ANC, established as an early 19th-century black elite response to their exclusion in the post-South African War 1902-1910 political settlement, has roots as a liberal construct. This historical context is crucial for understanding the ideological evolution of [...]