O President My President Our fearful trip has begunThe democracy cannot weather these cracksThe prize we sought is diminishing The grave is near, the hymns are sung, Our people are crying for your leadershipWhile poverty is wrecking our social fabricBut O anarchy, O anarchy, O anarchyOn the stairs of your high officeWhere on [...]
Seldom do you find a dad that stubbornly stays a brother and friend to you. A dad whose conduct only asks from you prefixes often accorded to cousins and peers. A dad whom when you hear others call papa you realise that indeed he was your dad you still preferred [...]
Zuma's biography has taken a dramatic turn, now etching his name into the annals of South African history as a former president arrested under a Ramaphosa presidency. This is a significant moment, a testament to the individual nature of the law's consequences. Once it sets its sights on you, there's [...]
The Jacob Zuma judgement has again woken up the persistently unsettled notion of misconstruing extreme exercise of tools, mechanisms, and opportunities entrenched in the country's constitution to test the limits of human rights under the law with a constitutional crisis situation. Our bar of expectation of citizens to challenge the [...]
As the judgement analysis ensues, the question is, 'Is it a checkmate on Zuma's chess board? Are there still pieces that Zuma needs to move? Are there new platforms that may be used to appeal the judgement in a court of public opinion? A not-like-Sisi-Khampepe jury is out."In an earlier [...]
The COVID19 pandemic death wave has smash and grabbed again. It broke into the home of Dr John Tibane and robbed his family of a father they knew God the almighty through. It removed from our earth a brain whose reach has gone beyond what his voice could reach.John Tibane [...]
Establishing a human rights-anchored Constitutional Democracy remains one of the unique 'freedom guaranteeing legacies the Mandela cohort of Parliamentarians, leadership complex, and thinkers had bequeathed to posterity. The isolation of each citizen into a human with rights protected and enshrined in the Constitution has not only subjugated organs of state [...]
The sentencing of Jacob Zuma, a significant figure in South African politics, has far-reaching implications. As he faces a 15-month jail term and becomes a subject of planning at correctional services, the focus shifts to the impact of this sentence on our fragile democracy and the functioning of our legal [...]
Democracy is supposed to be the arrangements with which society has agreed to govern itself. These arrangements are codified into laws and regulations through which society reconciles the conflicting interests of the individual members of society. How these interests aggregate into an acceptable policy position, generally coded as law, is [...]
Former ANC President Mbeki has penned a document to the effect that the ANC should not amend Section 25 of the Constitution in its quest to pave way for its National Conference resolution that directs ‘expropriation without compensation’, as a land restitution strategy. President Mbeki titles his document 'suggestions on [...]
