Suppose Andre de Ruyter’s claims survive critical scrutiny and ultimately become facts, and collectively the body of his facts stands. In that case, they will, with or without our permission, constitute (scientific) knowledge, and scientists will continually build the (scientific) credibility of those facts through repeated citations in rigorously peer-reviewed [...]

    A bureaucracy is the mind of the state. It thinks, analyses, and implements the political program of the government. Once political objectives are translated into public policy, it is a bureaucracy that follows through with financing, staffing, devising work procedures, and ultimately monitoring and evaluating progress. This is the [...]

 “One of the pressing challenges of the South African political context, both as a science and lived experience, as well as a theory developing space, is the historical traditions of the ANC, which have defined its story as a continuum of defining and redefining its character and purpose objectives. Whilst [...]

Rather than allowing our thinking or thoughts to be enslaved to narratives that follow existing paradigms of and about our Africanness, we can engage with these narratives while in conversation with great writings by diverse authors who help us to understand dimensions of truth, goodness, and beauty that we cannot [...]