Post-liberation mid-course evaluation of South Africa is here. The state has a legitimate government system. A constitutional democratic order with profound liberal order characteristics is theoretically in place and practically under construction. Systems that undergird it are a cultural necessity out of which the order's norms and standards [...]
South Africa became a Constitutional democracy in 1910 after a non-blacks-only consensus to establish a State whose sovereignty would be defined within the context of being a colonial outpost of Britain. This began a process of consolidating political power and decision-making into a National Legislature, supported by an [...]
The African National Congress prides itself as one of the best consultative democracy heritage sites in the world. As an organisation it has mastered how to bring together its members around a program of policy discourse and development with a view to influence and lead society. It is a heritage [...]
The liberation struggle in South Africa has had vaguely defined ends if the core policy documents instructing the outcomes attained at its 'breakthrough' moment in 1994 are anything to go by. Incubated in one of Africa's foremost liberal democracy pursuing political parties, the ANC, the negotiations settlement outcome [...]
"At the king’s command, they removed from the quarry(D) large blocks of high-grade stone(E) to provide a foundation of dressed stone for the temple. The craftsmen of Solomon and Hiram(F) and workers from Byblos(G) cut and prepared the timber and stone for the building of the temple." 1 Kings 5: [...]
The year 2024 will find the South African voter and the country's Establishment with hard to make political decisions than it had been at any time since 1993, after the assassination of Chris Hani. We would be in the middle of the fiercest youth impatience with a [...]
Few societies, and those that did, it was after a rebellion or similar, have been able to rise above the imagination of those that lead them. In the same vein, the habits or lifestyles of leaders become the values of those they lead and, by extension, society. To [...]
The interesting thing about post-conflict liberation is that although everyone agrees there should be the transformation of power relations in every aspect of society, very few, including those who take charge of power, decide on what should be transformed and to what end. What the struggle or [...]
In his inaugural speech as the 9th King of the Zulus, King MisuZulu Ka Zwelithini spoke of the renewal, rebuilding, and unity of 'Isizwe sa MaZulu'. The platitudes in his speech were codes. Only those interior to the actual issues surrounding the contestation for the throne would have [...]
As we exit the winter of having lost several Comrades to the pernicious hand of the COVID19 pandemic, it is difficult to accept the reality of death as just but normality in humanity without blame. Despite our knowledge that at birth, we began the race to our mortal [...]
