9 02, 2025

Trumping national unity through the ‘musk’ of mistrust. SEARCHING FOR A CONTEXT

By |2025-02-09T20:18:00+02:0002/09/2025|Categories: Thinc Perspectives|0 Comments

South Africa's history is a tale of profound injustice, often untold. It's a narrative of state-sponsored land confiscation from Indigenous people, a story of wars fought over land dispossession and its defence. The basis of commerce is the state's use of land as a resource for development, which was unjustly [...]

6 02, 2025

Reflections: What the State of the Nation deals with.

By |2025-02-06T20:51:00+02:0002/06/2025|Categories: Thinc Perspectives|0 Comments

1.   This year is the 70th Anniversary of the Congress of the People, which posited one of the permanent visions about South Africa: the Freedom Charter, "the cornerstone of the RSA Constitution."    2.   The government's posture and approach are to implement the Constitution, including what instructed its existence. Fundamental [...]

23 01, 2025

The National Dialogue: What Does It Hold?

By |2025-01-23T15:20:00+02:0001/23/2025|Categories: Thinc Perspectives|0 Comments

Published in TimesLive of 15 January 2025At his Reconciliation Day speech on 16 December 2024, President Ramaphosa announced that the National Dialogue would be held in 2025. He would appoint a panel of eminent persons and a steering committee to facilitate its realisation. In its annual 08 January 2025 Statement, [...]

22 01, 2025

The surfacing succession battle might signal the ANC’s end.

By |2025-01-22T12:24:00+02:0001/22/2025|Categories: Thinc Perspectives|0 Comments

This was published in TimesLive on 22 January 2025The January 2025 NEC's intense discussions about the election performance and related matters in KZN and Gauteng unofficially mark the beginning of the ANC succession battle journey towards December 2027. The consequential 2026 local government elections, which should be the preoccupation of any imaginable [...]

19 01, 2025

Decoding the SACP go-it-alone decision: Just thinking aloud.

By |2025-01-19T19:02:00+02:0001/19/2025|Categories: Thinc Perspectives|0 Comments

In less than 24 months, the ANC and the Tripartite Alliance, a historical coalition that shaped the theoretical dimensions of the anti-colonial and anti-apartheid struggle, had transitioned from a dominant force to the brink of a monumental crisis. The significant loss of 68 seats in Parliament, reducing their performance from [...]

15 01, 2025

The prerogative state might be in charge of RSA; it is the degree we don’t know.

By |2025-01-15T11:44:00+02:0001/15/2025|Categories: Thinc Perspectives|0 Comments

Published in the Sunday Times 05 January 2025With the proliferation of illegal mining, unregulated street vendors, unregistered doorstep retail outlets, and other signs of functional decay, the urgency of the situation in South Africa cannot be overstated. The continued disregard for laws and systems paints a picture of a country [...]

14 01, 2025

The Ngcaweni and Mathebula conversation. On criticism as Love and disagreeing respectfully.

By |2025-01-14T13:52:00+02:0001/14/2025|Categories: Thinc Perspectives|0 Comments

Busani Ngcaweni wrote about criticism and Love as a rendition to comrades and Comrades. His rendition triggered a rejoinder amplification of its validity by introducing  a dimension of disagreeing respectfully. This is a developing conversation and could trigger other rejoinders. The decision to think about issues is an event. Thinking [...]

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