As the arc of political hope for the future bends towards delusion for those that celebrated the outcomes of NASREC 2.0, if you like the 55th ANC Conference, the question is, have the tendencies that lost the elections left the ANC. While every hegemon tends to believe it can [...]
Often, we hear those wiser than many declare that you begin to change, grow, and transform only after you've stepped outside your comfort zone. We only understand what they mean until we encounter personalities that embody this truism. In the life of an academically focused human being, the journey [...]
The creation or building of a political order is an idea that develops over a sustained period of time and is in all instances a conglomeration of various interests into a few 'national' interests or 'elite consensus' on diverse interests. It is an outcome of an inner circle, surrounded by [...]
The African National Congress is the oldest political formation in South African politics. Its establishment was a response to the exclusion of natives from what would arguably be the template for the political order that shaped South Africa's constitutional history and its variants of democracy. It aggregated native political [...]
This is the amplification of a presentation to the Charity and Faith Mission Church by Pastor Sibongile Sithole. On the occasion of preparing for the 2023 prophetic word by General Overseer Titus Sithole.As we enter 2023, it is essential to do so with appropriate encouragement and inspiration. The oncoming 365 [...]
As we reminiscence on the closure of the 2022 World Cup spectacle held in Qatar, with Argentina winning the tournament and ushering Lionel Messi as the new Greatest of All Times in his generation, we are punctuated in our excitement by news of the passing on of Edson [...]
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. From all of us at the Thinc Foundation.
In August 2022, I wrote, "The ANC tradition connotes a set of deeply rooted, historically conditioned attitudes about the nature of the movement, the role of the ANC in society and the polity, the authentic organization and operation of the human emancipation system it represents, about the way [...]
Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, one of the ANC's Presidential candidates at its 55th National Conference, voted against the party's marching orders. In doing so, she invoked one of the sacred statements by ANC members when acting within the most principled of its many realms. She declared that her yes vote for [...]
The incapacity to withstand rebuttal from branches of the ANC to lead it has introduced a new breed of politicking. Why is it that questions of who is this are asked of comrades that served it at almost every conceivable level, but an elected position is all of [...]
