Published in the Sunday Tines on 23 April 2024The responsibility of liberating a nation from an oppressive system like apartheid remains that of revolutionaries, activists, and conscientious members of society. Naturally, one organisation or institution will emerge as the leader of society in the management of the struggle system, and [...]

At the launch of the ANC  in 1912, the unity of African Tribes and the exclusion of Africans defined and determined the political history of what became the Republic of South Africa. The ultimate prize of establishing a Native Congress was to guarantee enfranchisement and representation in the emerging architecture of [...]

THE THINC FOUNDATION PUBLISHES THIS CITATION FOR DR PHEKO BY THAMI KA PLAATJIE, FORMER PAN-AFRICANIST LEADER, IN HONOUR OF DR MOTSOKO PHEKO, WHO PASSED ON 19th APRIL, 2024.Speaking on the occasion of his doctoral graduation ceremony in 1946, Dr B. W. Vilakazi ( after whom the Vilakazi street in Soweto [...]

The post–2021 government by coalition landscape in RSA was primarily created by an opposition complex that played to its strengths. The opposition sees ANC's dislodgement from the governing party status as an opportunity in the coalition government chaos. The opposition complex leaders are exploiting and escalating the growing discontent with the [...]

Published in the Sunday Times on 18 April 2024In his rendition at a ULP event, ANC stalwart and one of South Africa's thinkers, Joel Netshitendze, opines that 'leaders have a good sense of moments in history and how to utilise them'. The 6th Administration has landed on Ramaphosa two moments [...]

Published in the Sunday Times 14 April 2024In almost all court appearances Jacob Zuma has been, his supporters have asked "Wenzeni uZuma". With its intricate layers and the inability of the criminal justice system to provide a definitive answer, this question has become a mystery that prosecution authorities cannot settle. [...]

Published in the Sunday Times 09 April 2024The saga around the ultimate charging of South Africa's chief lawmaker might indicate that the governing party is not only shedding its old skin and staying the same but metamorphosing into a creature we are poised to encounter beyond May 29, 2024. Notwithstanding [...]

This is a speech delivered by DPSA Minister Richard M Baloyi at an anti-corruption summit at the Sandton Convention Center in Johannesburg. The CEO of the Thinc Foundation was then Special Advisor to the Minister. In the light of corruption rearing its head to higher levels, as it was then, we [...]

Published in the Sunday Time on 07 April 2024.. "Gauteng takes provincial government to new heights.A common topic of discussion amongst South Africa's cognitive elites and analysts is the improbability of a more than 50% performance by one political party in the 2024 national and provincial elections, and some say [...]

An election legitimacy calamity might be unfolding in South Africa. The IEC's decision to uphold Jacob Zuma's objection to being on the MK Party list, which is based on the facts and the applicable law, might be throwing a cat among pigeons. The basis of the decision is the contempt [...]