This was published in TimesLive on 09 July 2025As Provincial Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi declared at a significant career press conference that "I will die for this badge", he sounded like a military operative making a heroic statement. The plain truth, after listening to the entire speech, is that he expressed a specific [...]
This was published in TimesLive on 02 July 2025Unless you are familiar with how the GNU works, the ANC-DA staged tensions seem like a straightforward story. The two opponents, fighting for dominance over South Africa's liberal spirit and facing a local government election to decide who will win, are about to lose [...]
Dr FM Lucky Mathebula (Prof)*Humanity has constantly been interrupted by its advances to upend the status quo established as the basis of coexistence with the self and the natural environment. The need to overcome time and distance is central to humanity's pursuit of betterment. Speed to arrive, contact, complete, and [...]
South Africa has undergone significant changes in the past three decades, and this transformation is set to continue in the next three. The trends that have shaped the country's democratic, constitutional, and economic order will continue to influence its future. The urgency of addressing its troubled past, contested present, and [...]
When we completed our Secondary Teachers Diploma, together with two cohorts that followed us, at the Transvaal College of Education, and we later realised many other colleges, in 1986, we vowed to become force multipliers of the liberation struggle through the power of the chalk and chalkboard. We left the [...]
There is a developing relationship between liberalism and the African National Congress. The ANC, established as an early 19th-century black elite response to their exclusion in the post-South African War 1902-1910 political settlement, has roots as a liberal construct. This historical context is crucial for understanding the ideological evolution of [...]
Politics Administration Dichotomy INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND South Africa is thirty years into a democratic and constitutional order anchored on non-racialism. It is a legally and legitimately constituted nation-state. Accepting a thirty year periodisation criteria, South Africa is within its rights to initiate several review projects to imagine the next three decades. It [...]
The world will be focused on the Club World Cup, where 32 of the best teams will compete in 63 matches to produce a globally watched ranking and a champion. The 32 teams will represent the National Premier leagues of the countries they hail from. Aside from the talents that [...]
In a context where a common purpose organisation has one of their own facing challenges, there is an expectation for a solidarity beyond all other considerations in the interest of the deeper purpose shared. The challenge should spur the common purpose community to gain knowledge about pathways to broader social and cultural [...]
South Africa is inarguably the continent's most cosmopolitan country. It is the most industrialised country in the southern hemisphere of Africa. The ultimate urban migration destination in the SADC is the region's nodal development cities, eight of which are metropolitan in the RSA. It attracts foreign nationals, a term used here [...]
