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. [...]
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 [...]
As the arc of governing a constitutional democracy anchored on improving the quality of life of all citizens bends towards the reality of service delivery, the governing African National Congress is entering one of its consequential policy choice phases; to privatise or not to privatise state-owned entities. The proposal by the [...]
This is a response to an article in the Mail and Guardian on the 27th of April, 2023, titled The invisibility of Black professionals, by Professor Hlengani Mathebula of the University of Limpopo Business School. The rendering foregrounds matters arising from the piece with a view to giving a completed [...]
On April 27, every year since 1995, South Africa stops, and the nation is supposedly celebrating its Freedom Day. The question that may not have received attention is what South Africans celebrate beyond that April 27, 1994, extended the full franchise to non-whites as they were characterised at some point. [...]
In the years leading up to the 1994 democratic breakthrough in South Africa, what the ANC stood for, as a hegemony of the liberation struggle, was unquestionable. The inhumanity of apartheid, the flagrant marginalisation of women, and the moral authority of the apartheid state to govern without the will of [...]
The advent of a possible national coalition government occasioned by an envisaged low electoral performance of the ANC in 2024 has sparked puzzling thinking about the coalition the ANC might have to form. At the same time, the government of national unity cooperation between the ANC and the liberal right [...]
