This was published on 03 November 2024 in an edited version under the headline “The supply-side dynamics of national human development issues.” The unfolding ‘tension’ surrounding the BELA Act in South Africa is a complex and multifaceted issue. This tension, primarily between the determined and resourceful Ethnonationalist Afrikaner Leadership Complex [...]

“Higher Education is not the birthplace of poets or immortal authors, founders of schools, leaders of countries or conquerors of nations. Its purpose is not limited to training professional men, though this falls within its scope. A university education should instead give humanity a clear conscious view of his own opinions [...]

The renewal of the ANC is more about resolving tensions within the organisation than institutional renewal. A getting to do the right things right approach assumes a membership that knows the right things. Since the Polokwane putsch, the ANC’s internal order began to be defined in factional terms. From that [...]

Since the dawn of a constitutional state and a consequent democratic order, South Africa has worked and believed in the sustainability of the Mandela national unity spirit for the past thirty years. The emerging government of national unity, the choice of the opening of Parliament on Nelson Mandela Day, and [...]