Followership, a capacity or willingness to follow a leader, is a new area of focus for an inquisition by humanity, especially when leadership is increasingly becoming a burden to the peace that humanity perpetually yearns for. The rise and growth of civil society movements and politically unencumbered social [...]
The African National Congress was formed in 1912 by a cohort of middle and land owning class including educated native Africans in the geographical space then called the Union of South Africa. Educated in foreign universities and some coming from Royal houses, they came together to [...]
The ANC's integrity management system which seems to have supplanted its disciplinary committee-driven management of membership integrity has to date proven to be effective to the extent that it remains supported. The new system is based on members volunteering themselves into the process and soliciting the advice [...]
The re-election of a Ramaphosa-type leader in the December 2022 ANC National Elective Conference might be a turning point in the growth and maturation of the South African democratic experiment. It might bring some closure to a chapter of an ANC that seem to have not embraced [...]
Corruption, State Capture, and sheer poor leadership pleasure by those that can make a difference to change the course that South Africa finds itself, is getting to pandemic proportions. This has indeed landed the governing party, the ANC, in fact, the entire governing and ruling elite, including [...]
Oftentimes humanity goes through relationships that generate enduring affection, esteem, intimacy, trust, and feelings of safety around other humans. Upon landing on earth, through parents, particularly our moms, we arrive at humanity's primary reception committee, and when you are fortunate you find the reception committee in its ideal [...]
In explaining the importance of a trust relationship, a South African scholar tells of a story where a child would jump from an elevated position into the arms of a parent because the child trusts that the parent won't shift or fail to catch him or her. [...]
When dealing with non-state, or non-governmental corruption, including state capture, the South African academic media complex, its analyst community, and policymakers are typically employing a vocabulary or posture of non-engagement or outright silence. On the contrary when there are similar, or less impactful to the economy corruption stories, involving [...]
The African National Congress, as its name says was conceptualized as one of the most institutionalized responses to the institutionalization of imperialism and colonialism into a constitutional construct. At the turn of the 20th Century, and after a brutal non-black war about who has the right to [...]
Branch delegate purchase at conferences, manipulation of credentials at conferences to engineer election outcomes, funding of slates by the criminal underworld to create a better political environment for its existence, dearth of policy discourse at sub-national conferences, prerogative or arbitrary disbandment of organizational structures such as the woman's [...]
