The political war for the soul of the ANC is indeed a never-ending one. In an in-ANC election year, the contest to be in charge of the hegemonic power that comes with being in its leadership intensifies. Where the first battle is going to be is a conundrum [...]
"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 intellectual resilience of African wisdom cues and [...]
The eminent promulgation of regulations to manage conditions of epidemics and pandemics without the necessity of declaring a national state of disaster has evoked many an emotion in society. Whilst these regulations are published for public comment with the possibility of them being amended to accommodate society's perspectives, the [...]
Litigation of government decisions, the challenge of foreign policy, usurping of local government functions through court orders, blatant attack on non-racialism policies in education, the open establishment of parallel education facilities based on language rights and threats to secede from South Africa by the Western Cape right; there [...]
In his address to ANC members in the Western Cape, President Mbeki said "the task we have set ourselves as part of the renewal is to strengthen the ANC so that ...it can play (the) role ... to help us achieve the changes that are required". He [...]
On Thursday, 17th March 2022, I went to an evening memorial service in honor of a Missionary, a sister to my pastor and General Overseer of the Association of Churches Ministers and Ministries Bishop Titus Sithole. The memorial was in remembrance of Pastor Robina Mowale. At the service, Bishop Dununu Msibi [...]
On March 18, thirty years ago, more than 68% of white South Africans voted in favor of the abolishment of Apartheid and 'endorsed' the idea of 'freedom' for blacks thereby ushering the dawn of this specific democracy. Hailed by some as a significant day in the History of South Africa, [...]
There is no debate that the voter posture and patterns of subnational government voting represent the first phase of a broader strategy by the core of its support base to seek an arrangement where they are not governed by non-white and in particular Africans. Whilst on paper the [...]
When the 2021 Municipal Elections were finally announced, a new truth about South African politics started to paint itself as a new canvas to contend with. To some, it was a shock and frustration, to others a triumph of the sovereignty of the individual in all matters [...]
Can we say the African National Congress is truly in decline as the once 'authentic' voice of the liberation promise for South Africans? Certainly not. Not if there is a growing confusion of its role as a post-Apartheid political party caught up in the narrow exigencies of state [...]
