TO MPHOA birth-date is a reminder to celebrate the life you are living as well as to update the very life. As you have again has this opportunity to meet with your birthdate, have a happy birthday my sister, amongst many. I agree with Pholile, and want to ad that [...]
As the year draws to a close, we are all looking forward to the Christmas retreat and reunion with relatives and family. Those that still have parents will be reconnecting with their source. It is times like these that throw me to the many discussions I have had with [...]
As political parties wrap up their final pushes towards the 1 November 2021 local government elections day, a new reality is dawning to historically bigger parties. The reality that these elections are more about containing gained ground than hoping for outright majority win in strategic urban centres defining South [...]
Beloved in the Lord, the crucifixion of Jesus Christ remains the central pillar of our salvation and the deepest expression of God’s love for humanity. When Scripture declares, “Let us make man in our image” (Genesis 1:26), it affirms that humanity is fashioned in the fullness of God. The Father, Son, and Holy [...]
Our nature as humanity includes the pursuit of power to create, change and influence our space or living conditions. This quest has overtime been found to be responsible for most of the conflicts amongst us. Our interests are what defines the need to influence and create to alter our conditions. [...]
The task of reconstructing nations that have been in conflict is not the responsibility of the governments they form as an outcome of peace. South Africa is a post-conflict nation that has pre-peace conflict fault lines impacting on its ability to cohere around a common program to the benefit of [...]
The 2021 Municipal Elections are in full force, and political parties are contesting for the support of South Africans in their 278 municipalities. The contest is in fact in 8 Metropolitan Municipalities, 44 District Municipalities, and 226 Local Municipalities. At a granular level the contest is for well over 4 [...]
I was invited to a dinner with UNISA's Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Professor Puleng LenkaBula. This was, I suppose, one of the stakeholder engagement processes she had embarked upon to introduce herself-in-the-office to various establishments that may or will be critical to the success or otherwise of her tenure at UNISA. [...]
The purpose of voting in a democracy is to, amongst others, allow voters to influence, at least, who ultimately gets to use 'public power' and ‘all that the state monopolises' to determine sovereign human destinies. In South Africa, this right to vote has been equated to the ultimate means of [...]
A democracy is a manifestation of the society that created it. As an arrangement with which a society has agreed to reconcile its conflictual interests and priorities, a democracy is a reflection of the deeper dynamics in a society. It is in fact a referendum of the ideational emotions [...]
