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 [...]
The African National Congress, ANC, is not getting the best out of its otherwise loyal membership. This is a message which the unending contestation for leadership, that has trapped the ANC in a whirlpool of elections at all its sub-national structures, is being communicated. As the organization [...]
Undoubtedly, South Africa is on almost autopilot mode when it comes to how society is being led. It has one of the most liberal Constitutions, where every human act survives the wrath of state law enforcement agencies if it can be able to be argued as a human right. The [...]
It is clear that a new centre of politics has emerged in KZN. This centre will undoubtedly redefine the substrates at both the Policy and Electoral Conferences of the ANC starting next week. The singing about Jacob Zuma at the KZN conference has made it clear, and [...]
A South African academic writes that "the use of metaphors and parables remains one of the greatest assets in the African education system. Supported by a rigorously used system of storytelling and use of symbols, metaphors have for centuries provided indigenous scholarship about and for African civilizations. The [...]
In its year of renewal and rebuilding, the ANC is mired in a leadership crisis. It has just emerged out of a punishing and reputation liquidating, on live television, state capture commission of inquiry. The commission report points the most fingers at its leaders, past, and present. In [...]
The in-ANC factional rivalry is, unfortunately, maturing to levels where fighting against each other is fast becoming the politics of being ANC. For as long as it existed, the liberation movement has been about addressing the national grievance of land dispossession and all that goes with it. The liberation [...]
I met Tito Khalo as a colleague and friend in 1993 when he recruited me to come and join them as a part-time lecturer at Setlogelo Technikon, now part of a Kader Asmal Policy merged Tshwane University of Technology. I knew him as a student at the South African [...]
The exposure of the PhalaPhala farm cash-in-furniture theft confirmed what has long been apparent; the anti-corruption and anti-state capture-based narrative New Dawn presidency was always at the risk of collapse unless it defined its own thesis of existence. The character of the governing party is never to be [...]
Šaka la hloka manamane ga le na bokamoso; translated 'a kraal that does not have calves has no future, is a Sepedi proverb that anchors the significance of succession planning in society, organizations, and institutions. The African National Congress, the kraal in this context, has a history of [...]
