At the pinnacle of having successfully transformed South African society to conform to Apartheid, the BJ Voster-led National Party government sought to start the cultural assimilation of ‘its subjects’ through the introduction of Afrikaans as the medium of instruction. In pursuit of establishing a racial hierarchy which would have permeated [...]

The political ideas characteristic of shallow citizens, politicians, and analysts are those of gossip, prejudice, and shibboleths. On the other hand, political ideas characteristic of candidates to be a leader of society brigade member are facts, truth, impartiality, and being unconventional.  What broad pooling of ideas and trailblazing should be [...]

South Africa’s first democratically elected President, Nelson Mandela, jokingly advised that if the new democratic government does to us what the apartheid government did, we must do to it what we did to the apartheid government. The apartheid government ran a parliamentary democracy system. The new democratic government has a [...]

As South Africa is undergoing one of the external to its context pressures to its otherwise volatile currency, the rand, pundits and thinkers alike are pondering on how it extricates itself from its legal obligations in terms of its statutes. The influence of the rand on the economy runs deep. [...]