The resurfacing of urine and urinating at yet another of the historically white, and exclusively Afrikaner University, is a coded message about the maturity of our social cohesion if any at all. Watching the video, listening to its content, searching for condemnation from civil society movements that [...]
In December 2022, South Africa will emerge from one of its consequential in-ANC elective conferences, the 55th National Conference. At stake will be both the form and content that the ANC will take, with Ramaphosa's bid for a second term representing the ultimate of its contested form, and [...]
It is inevitable that wealth and power, the motive force for most tensions and conflicts affecting humanity, are moving away from their dispossession-determined locations in South Africa. The apartheid colonial order is giving way to one increasingly crafted by a new cohort of self-determined and purpose-driven South Africans [...]
The booing off the stage of Ramaphosa in Rustenburg is a paradigm shift on the scale of a head of state recall we saw in recent times. It was the dignity of the Office of the President that was also booed, by supporters of a governing alliance whose [...]
For a while, the politics of South Africa have been in an antithesis mode about almost everything. The last time we were in a thesis mode as a society, it was about what should our democratic future and order be. This was a time when we innovated what is [...]
Upon assuming office as the fifth President of South Africa for its sixth administration, President Ramaphosa in his State of the Nation Address to Parliament announced a new service delivery approach modeled around the centrality of the District (and Metropolitan) Municipal jurisdiction as the focal space within which [...]
The African National Congress is facing a national elective conference in December 2022. The contestations for leadership of Africa's oldest 'liberation movement' have begun, interests will define new political fiends, factional templates will change, professional lobbyists will descend on our shores, and thinking will soon start reflecting encumbrances. In [...]
The reality of a post-flood disaster in KwaZulu-Natal is an inevitability all of South Africa should start dealing with. The management of the disaster that befalls society is a public affairs management endeavor whose outcome redefines life, livelihoods, and their attendant faculties into posterity. The scope and reach [...]
For a while, the South African thinking and ideational community has been debating, including in muted tones, whether the stubbornness of the economy to grow sufficient enough to allow new and historically excluded entrants is responsible for calls that the transformation which has happened was not as radical [...]
There is a growing narrative that the recent conferences of the ANC, notably the Mpumalanga provincial and the eThekwini regional conferences signal a shift in support for Ramaphosa, this blog piece argues there are in fact shifts in his favour than many would notice. However, this narrative might [...]
