"O President My President…Our fearful trip has begun…The prize we sought is diminishing”, writes a South African Poet. The fearful trip in the poem points to a journey towards a failed state. This cry fits the current state of the nation too well as there is growing evidence of public [...]
The events that followed the suspension in 2021 of the ANC's Secretary General, Ace Magashule, are not only m definitive of the ANC's future, but will at the same time redefine South Africa's politics as we know them. Beyond this suspension will be questions of what becomes of the ANC, [...]
We are experiencing the emergence of decisiveness by a cohort of leadership. The country is thrust into a new era of leaders making decisions. Without reflecting on the quality or otherwise of the decisions, as a society, we must applaud that they are at least taken. We know we have a rare [...]
The implementation of the African National Congress’s (ANC) National Conference, and later NEC, step aside resolution has put the governing party onto the most consequential review of its consequence management systems as they apply to its leadership and senior cadres deployed at various strategic centers of state management and government. [...]
In classical Guillaume Faye parlance and writing, the time might have come for the knowledgeable in South Africa to abandon the unanimous conspiracy of silence they have volunteered themselves into, purely because of a fear of being ideationally and/or otherwise marginalized from the oligopolistic academic-political-economy-media complex that followed the aftermath [...]
The debt of humanity to nature seems to be only payable through death. How nature comes back to us and makes a demand for our exit from its eternal peace, is what humanity has been unable to predict and control. We are thus all in a natural space [...]
WHAT IS CULTURAL HERITAGE Cultural heritage is something of value, something handed down to us from previous generations. It carries the stamp of those who came before us. This is inherited property. It is inherited for its historic, cultural, or natural significance. The heritage can either be physical artifacts such as [...]
William Shakespeare submits that “all the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts”. In this submission, Shakespeare speaks of the theatrical quality of our social life as human beings inside [...]
In his contribution to the theory of dictatorship, Ernst Fraenkel, a NAZI Germany’s era legal mind introduces the concept of duality in a previously troubled State. He introduces the concepts of a Normative State, which he explains as one where the rule of law regulates the allocative power of the [...]
COVID19 has become a departure point for many an analysis about governance, economies, the global order, and even family life. High impact and academic journals are clogged with a variety of articles purporting to be crystal balling into a post-COVID19 world. The rush might be inspired by humanity’s innate character [...]
