As our country is going through a phase where thinking about how to think of thought through solutions, the need to stop avoiding the task of thinking has now thrust itself to the centre of all matter of thinking. The importance of intellectualism to originate solutions and scenarios is the [...]
BMF members and leadership!! On a point of order please!! Kahleni tuu, musani u ku qhazwa hi nyakanyaka tuu!!Again we ask to whose 'interest' or what 'interest' is the headline being given airtime. The BMF remains one of the most vocal organisations that advocates the 'Black' cause in its [...]
Interests, the currency and oxygen of politics, are a complex web that binds members of an organisation. Their acceptance, voluntary or otherwise, of its rules, rituals, and ways of doing things will enable them to hold together, creating a fascinating dynamic. Corruption, as an 'interest', has not only occupied a larger [...]
As we celebrate the departure of Mogoeng Mogoeng as South Africa's Chief Justice, we do so being humbled by his commitment to Constitutional Democratic principles defining our legal system. He came, became, and left. The institution of the judiciary received him, and hosted him. He dwelled in it, [...]
Let us flirt with and/or court controversy for the sake of posterity. Guilty as charged, but write we will, so that the nation talks of its 'tribes' unhindered.The standing of the ANC has taken a serious knock over the last 15 years, including 2021. The extensive coverage of and [...]
Kwa-Zulu Natal is a Indian-African race relations powder keg that has been ignored for decades, as it served the ideological intents of Apartheid. The in-ANC history on the Natal Indian Congress and the ANC show deep seated fissures in the process that led to the 'collaboration pact' against a state [...]
Stable democracies are products of the quality of administrations that undergird them. It is the follow through that comes out of bureaucratic efficiency which makes policies of competitive nations to stay ahead of the rest. In fact, even dictatorships depend on their bureaucracies to stay afloat. South Africa [...]
The 2016 local government results in the metropolitan municipalities of Tshwane, Johannesburg, Ekhurhuleni, and Nelson Mandela Bay have brought home the glimpse of the possibility of imagining South Africa without the ANC as a governing party. All four municipalities represent a diverse character of South Africa, they include the manufacturing [...]
Society's experience of politics is local. The prize of good politics is the control of government as an agency of the state. In the local sphere of government, municipalities are an agency of the local state, and how they govern represents the sum total of how society experiences government. [...]
September 30 marks the end of South Africa's public service month and ushers in the National Book Month. I celebrated the 30th of September with Titus Mafolo, a public servant who served with his literary skills as advisor to President Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of launching his three [...]
