There is no sign that the renewal and rebuilding program of the 'leader of society brigade' within the broader membership of the ANC is slowing down. This is despite the liberation struggle nostalgia-dependent and 'putting-the-ANC-in-disrepute-filled' cohort of members fighting back with pedestrian rhetoric. Notable in their [...]
In the remedial actions section of Advocate Thuli Madonsela, now Professor at Stellenbosch University, and former Public Protector, report on the State of Capture, she recommended the 'establishment of a Judicial Commission of Inquiry to investigate "alleged bridge of the Executive Members Ethics Code of 1998", "awarding [...]
The centrality of integrity, as virtue leaders must possess, has become one criterion to score high in many indices of ethical leadership. Everyday experience shows that societies are willing to trade parts of their envisaged democratic order for greater ethicalness. On such grounds, member integrity management systems [...]
The era of thinking in South Africa is not returning, it never left, and only its activists stopped their noble role. The arc of ignorance bends away from national competitiveness. As individuals, we easily believe our thoughts are the context of all contexts, and yet our collective [...]
A wave of South Africanness has caught up with the country and might be redefining the nature, character, and content of politics. The transition from the apartheid regime to a constitutional democracy based on the rule of law and supremacy of the constitution has ushered in a phase [...]
It was in 2004, on a sweltering night in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). We were sitting in one of the only two good hotels that had survived the destruction of war when Kabila senior led his troops in the march to Kinshasa [...]
In the aftermath of the 54th ANC Conference in NASREC, and since Cyril Ramaphosa has ascended as President of the ANC, the South African democratic order has for a while been defined by resurgences of in-ANC factional fights. Firing the first salvo to the rivalry was the [...]
Poetry is "literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm". Through poetry, the different shades of humanity can be displayed through rhythm and language. Human imagination becomes art through poetry. Lines [...]
Some people live for themselves, and there are those who live because of others. And some would make it their business to create things only to advance humanity. Similarly, there are business persons who get into enterprises because they want to make good of the world of fellow [...]
The notable rise of China into a development behemoth and the World's leading growth-driven economy has often conflicting theories posited to justify it. Fundamental to the Chinese outlook on their success is their "belief in performance legitimacy". Etched in their intellectual tradition, China has approached its rise [...]
