INTRODUCTION As government battles the scourge of COVID-19, and results of mass testing are dripping in, education as one of the key systems that drive sustainable development, emerges as an area that needs more work for any post-COVID19 reconstruction to undergird long-term societal resilience. The unprecedented early lockdown announced by [...]
The advent of a post-COVID 19 world is an inevitability all of us should start dealing with. The management of the crises through the pandemic is a public affairs management project whose outcome will redefine life and its attendant faculties into posterity. The speed and reach of the virus to [...]
COVID-19 has in South Africa brought to bear Laski’s assertion that ‘a State divided into a small number of rich (monopolistic) and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property’. Laski’s statement centres inequality as an [...]
A stable order is a rare thing in the world. The idea of freedom in South Africa remains the most elusive of Democratic experiments that emerged from a negotiated settlement, as opposed to those that settled through a after war treaty. In negotiating the enfranchisement of Bantu Blacks from 1990 [...]
Response letter to the FW de Klerk statement on apartheid as a crime against humanity. Dr FW De Klerk The FW De Klerk Foundation P. O. Box 15785 Panorama 750616 February 2020 Dear Dr De Klerk, MY RESERVATIONS ON THE FWDK FOUNDATION’S STATEMENT: APARTHEID A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY In my [...]
The colonial history that defined South Africa remains one of the permanent watermarks in any analysis of whatever democratic order it ultimately settles with. The structural foundations of its state formation process are a further background of permanence for any concert of reforms and reconceptualisations of all arguments defining democraticness [...]
The psychology of oppression is devastating, to say the least, to the oppressed. Steve Biko centred his understanding and explanation of oppression to the mind of the oppressed, concluding that the weapon in the hands of the oppressed to free themselves is to free their mind. It would seem that [...]
The 54th ANC National Conference in NASREC was not only watershed in its decisiveness to liquidate slate politics in favour of unity, but also about the introduction of a new ‘post-liberation’ order for South Africa. The ANC led liberation struggle narrative which remains instructional to most of the ANC’s ideational [...]
In the last few weeks South Africa has been experiencing an episode that threatens to redefine the ANC from its earned status as a leader of society, to a eremite institution characterised by corruption and factionalism. The State Capture Commission has become a new theatre within which scenes, acts and [...]
African Nationalist movements have created modern day African states, and citizens of these states are in one way or the other turning against these movements, or what they have turned out to represent. In creating these states the movements etched their state formation paradigms on a nationalist outlook restrained by [...]
