In his 2022 January 08 historic ANC annual state of the liberation movement speech, President Ramaphosa said "The movement must, therefore, undergo a fundamental and lasting process of renewal and rebuilding if it is to remain the effective and trusted agent of change. This change must find particular resonance in how [...]
The idea of liberation in South Africa has entered its consequential crisis. Until recently, a conviction of the liberation movement reared cohort of South African politicians has been confined to the rhetoric of seeing anything and anyone wielding institutional power as an enemy of 'the revolution'. That the [...]
South Africa is going through a difficult period of redefining itself as a democracy beyond the rhetorics of its past conflicts and tensions. Almost thirty-five years since the Mandela-De Klerk Accord, whose processing went through the robust test of the CODESA negotiations and ultimately chronicled as the 1996 [...]
Generations and/or age groups are agents of social change and carriers of ‘intellectual’ and organizational alternatives to the status quo. Generations, especially youth, have historically been sources or practical agents of opposition, rebellions, and revolutions, interrogating existing and established societal ideas, and demolishing the status quo, mostly through the [...]
1. The dawn of our democracy in 1994 marked a ‘doctrinal shift’ in how we understand the concept of liberation as the liberation movement has taught us.2. The concept of liberation has for a long time meant the arrival of freedoms that included outright restitution and restoration of colonial losses [...]
The ANC 55th Conference is getting close, the contest for leading Africa's oldest liberation movement is hotting up, policy rhetoric less defines the future of the liberation promise, the long-awaited final Zondo report is out, and recommendations are with the head of the national executive in whom [...]
In societies, interest groups would routinely contend to shape perspectives of the national interest, and convince 'rulers' to adopt their preferred policies. The influence of strategic solidarity groups on policy positions in South Africa has for a while proven to work for those that can finance [...]
The day before Father's Day has been declared by me as a day that I will spend with all those children that meet the criteria to be grandchildren of me as their Big Daddy. This year 2022 was the inaugural Big Daddy Day, I invited my grandchildren [...]
That time when Fathers are foregrounded for praise, honor, and veneration has arrived, Sunday, June 19 is Father's Day. It is a day in which society pauses and says to its fathers, thank you for being who you are. For some, it is about reminiscing about [...]
Among the collateral damage of the 'Phala Phala Farmgate' is the stability of our democracy. Logic dictates or insists that the pursuit of interests, which are the currency of politics, trumps higher ideals, such as the commitment to in-party comradeship, the sanctity of solidarity, and the [...]
