The advent of technology progressively challenging the need for humans in the performance of mundane tasks is a reality that has not only impacted the necessity of humans in certain of production functions, but their necessity in the delivery of 'public services'. In a 1997 strategic planning workshop of the department [...]
Very often when one hears of the passing on of someone like Cde. Dan Montsitsi, one feels inadequate to write a tribute to him. This is because his knowledge of him might not even be a chapter in the life of someone as great as Cde. Sediane Danny Montsitsi. Cde. Sedibane [...]
As the country is deep in celebrating women's month, it will also be putting names and faces to the women we are specifically celebrating. Some of the women are age equivalents of our parents, grand or otherwise. I am writing this to venerate women that had a profound impact on [...]
The role of women in society is undoubtedly the most debated, and probably diversely understood, aspect of socio-political co-existence in South Africa. Apart from how the woman citizen is recognised and protected by and in law, the woman as a person still has a long walk to her proverbial complete [...]
The essence of all of humanity's innovation and invention was and still is about the reduction of the time it takes to do anything, and rendering the distance between fellow humans irrelevant. Decentralisation is thus the most unannounced intent of all of man's quest to being freed from the risks of [...]
When we are born we are seldom being given cues that should guide our lives in an almost unconscious way. We are taught many an elementary skills whose applications occur in our lives as a normality we have even forgotten we were taught if not modelled to live. Some of [...]
In his poetry book, a South African poet writes, Because we know not the clouds The rain is a stranger to us Rivers are flowing past usOur buckets are empty, we thirstGardens are dry and dying; Yet it continues to rain on usIn his rendition, he interprets rain in the absence of clouds as [...]
The ANC is one of the most influential political movements on the continent. As a construct, it presides as and over a political coalition of communists, capitalists, tribalists, nationalists, and everything in the bread church, as the Zondo Commission has shown what else is inside. Armed with a mandate to [...]
Former President Jacob Zuma has been sentenced to 15 months imprisonment for contempt of the Constitutional Court. He retires into history as the first Head of State ever, of the geographical space called South Africa, to be sentenced to a jail term. He will also be the first high profile [...]
In a conversation between Blessing Mphela and Squire Mahlangu about the State of the ANC, a number of insights emerged. These indicated the expanding dearth of an organisation that might be living in the shadow of its glorious past. An organisation that might be feeding itself off its own, it [...]
