South African black business leaders have been decrying the post-1994 Establishment (mainly political) for not having been serious about Black Economic Empowerment. They argue that current efforts do or will not recalibrate the templates of economic participation, exclusion, and dominance. Notwithstanding the promulgation of a regulatory framework to advance BEE [...]
“Using metaphors and parables remains one of the greatest assets in the African education system. Supported by a rigorously used system of storytelling and the use of symbols, metaphors have for centuries provided indigenous scholarship about and for African civilisations. The intellectual resilience of African wisdom cues and philosophy-endowed idiomatic [...]
While the problem of leadership has always been the liberation movement's growing problem from a necessity point of view, it has now taken on the character of an inescapable concern. Through leadership quality, society can have a dialogue with itself about the future. Given that leaders are, and in a [...]
To the naked and innocent eye, the logic of the ANC's appeals on a debt collection issue puts the ANC in gross disrepute. It puts into question the calibre of leadership, especially the financial management capability, past and present, of the ANC on trial in a court of public opinion. [...]
The real narrative watermarked in all these dysfunctions of leadership and organisation is the collapse of the liberation movement leading South Africa. With all the pain that goes with it, South Africans are resigned to the reality of a post-ANC-as governing party dispensation, unless a miracle happens. The Tshwane and [...]
God's relationship with man is one of the most complex in the history of humanity. This relationship has been nurtured, cultivated, or curated by the institution of the Church. In the Kingdom of God, the Church is the city, village, commune, township, or organised community with its laws, bureaucracy, and [...]
The governing party convened a meeting at the University of the Western Cape to start a dialogue on coalition government arrangements. The "anyone but the ANC" posture taken by the opposition complex, which has plunged local government into a governance crisis, was a reawakening to the ANC of the leader [...]
Let this rendition start by congratulating Matshela Koko and others for the courage to say, 'We are not what they say we are'. It is a statement loaded with a consciousness of self that will be liberatory to many executives in South Africa who have been silenced by the noise [...]
The South African Constitution is the supreme source of law. It legalises a non-racial, non-sexist, united, and democratic South Africa. It commits the State to recognise the injustices of the past, heal the divisions of that past and establish a society based on democratic values, social justice, and human rights. [...]
THE THRUST OF THIS POST WAS PUBLISHED IN THE SUNDAY TIMES OF 19 NOVEMBER 2023. THIS IS AN UNEDITED VERSION. The thought of a less than 50% performance by all the parties contesting for elections is tantamount to thinking of South Africa in post-ANC-as-governing-party terms. Opinion polls about the 2024 national [...]
