For decades now, the world and humanity have known democracy not only in the Lincolnian parlance of ‘government of the people by the people for the people' but also as a construct whose optimal operation occurs when the government is constituted by those that garnered the most votes in [...]
The 2021 Municipal Elections have evoked all sorts of emotions, commentaries, analyses, and theories about the future of the ANC as a governing party. Ramaphosa in the process come out as one of the coolest of ANC Politicians. He wrapped his electioneering season by accepting a free and fair [...]
"Petropolitics is not the game of the faint hearted."The political economy of energy and OPEC is guarded jealously. It is fraught with dynamics that make it the subject of the rich and privileged.We have recently witnessed how, in the heat of global discussions and fight for dominance, members of [...]
In answering this question, South Africans should make honesty about what the country is going through, the context of all contexts. To avert a further decline of South African livelihoods and the instability that has come with it, as seen in the rising crime rates, racial intolerance, vigilantism, and growing [...]
The South African voter reacted to the lack of service delivery and the failed state at local government by voting new parties and the opposition, as well as abstaining from voting the governing ANC. A casual look at the IEC published list of political funding also shows a decline, if [...]
I remember the march vividly. I was there with the marchers, with a few comrades, the late Stanza Bopape, Akila, the late Cicerine Makhwere, the late Penny Mlahleki, Ting Ting Mlahleki amongst others. It started in Mamelodi East led by the chairperson of the Residents Organization, Louis Khumalo. As it proceeded [...]
On a fateful Thursday, November 21, 1985, South Africa witnessed one of the brutal massacres that decorated the being of a country called South Africa, in a township called Mamelodi. Then a nest of political activism that could have been the birthplace of the South African Youth Congress, which was [...]
According to Ken Owen who is a former editor of The Sunday Times, F.W. de Klerk was brought to the negotiating table by “the bankruptcy of a nation that had been looted until it could no longer honour its debts”? Owen goes on to argue that we “owe our [...]
In a response to the FW de Klerk Tribute that was written on the Thinc Blog, by myself, a question was asked "Prof Khalanga. I think that both *** and *** comments might have had an unintended effect: that of closing the discussion. But I wish to engage openly on this [...]
As we reminiscence on leadership challenges of our country, and pontificate what to do next, we are saddened to hear of the passing-on of one of Africa’s Noble Peace Price laureates, FW de Klerk, the last President of Apartheid South Africa, and its first post-Apartheid Deputy President. In the ilk [...]
