As the South African Association of Public Administration and Management holds its annual conference with a focussed discussion of professionalisation of the Public Service, the Mandela-Mbeki Public Service mandarins were in the same week launching an Association of Former Directors Generals (AfDGs). Addressed by the Minister of Public Service and [...]
The African National Congress launched its elections manifesto for the November 1 local government elections on 27th September 2021. The theme of the manifesto is 'Building Better Communities Together'. Whilst the elections are about the household bread and butter issues, as well as citizen primary reception with the hospitality of [...]
I have been asked by many a friends on whether I would be voting the ANC or not. Some even went to an extent of reading my blog posts to being a sign of my political 'doctrinal' shift, given the personal history some know I have with the ANC. In [...]
I have just finished reading a book on reinventing capitalism. One of the striking revelation about capitalism is the power of price to aggregate information about a commodity into a figure. That figure captures all and/or most dimensions of the product in ways that the product itself becomes passive in the [...]
A stable order is a rare thing in the world. The idea of freedom in South Africa remains the most illusive of Democratic experiments that emerged from a negotiated settlement. In negotiating the enfranchisement of Blacks from 1990 to 1996, and when a Constitutional Democratic Constitution was adopted, the Liberation [...]
One of the dividends of the 1994 democratic breakthrough is the elevation of heritage as a national asset worth celebrating and bringing aspects of the economy to a halt for its own sake. What makes heritage real to a nation, in the end, is not just the splendid edifices at [...]
The influence of civil society bodies and movements committed to truncating the post-1994 political economy gains in South Africa is inexorably rising and on the verge of defining the 'liberation movement' complex out of relevance. These bodies have become the largest magnets of non-political party funding that has political economy [...]
When EDI Holdings was established as a company to begin the transformation of the electricity industry, the ideational construct was to 'unbundle' the industry into generation, transmission and distribution. EDI Holdings would be modelled as a company holding majority shareholding in six regional electricity distribution companies (REDS), demarcated to be [...]
The resilience of an organisation is a function of its systems. The more an organisation introduces in its working systems what can be repetitive and scaled beyond its centre, the better a resilient entity it will become. The African National Congress was formed in the wake of a deliberate exclusion [...]
The establishment of institutions is more about creating embodiments of societal leadership than having them for their own sake. The ability of a human being to travel from one end of the globe to the other with no need to ask for directions is a stark reminder that systems and [...]
