The ANC’s succession debate has again taken centre stage in the analysis of all manner of discourse in South Africa. The contest for political power is now firmly within the ANC domain. Opposing factions have once again concretised around personalities and not ‘policy positions’ and ‘promises for [...]
Article Published in The African Executive and LITNET.It is oftentimes unusual to have a name of a locality being analyzed for its political significance and meaning rather than what it means for the residents of the area. Mangaung, South Sotho for a place of cheetahs, is metaphoric in its relationship [...]
Published in the June Edition of The Thinker.African post-colonial democracies and states are functioned by a perpetual need to undo the vestiges of colonialism. The passionate zeal with which this assignment is pursued creates in the state formation paradigm of the post-liberation rulers a government deconstruction firmament that always gets [...]
In the discussion document titled ‘organisational renewal’ the ANC identifies the seven dangers that any governing party has to contend with. The contextualisation of these dangers is within a ‘rather short’ and yet potent self-critique heading of organisational shortcomings and weaknesses. Whilst these weaknesses are presented for members to concur [...]
In his 08 January 2012 President Jacob Zuma spoke of an ANC that has been born out of a call for unity in diversity. In the same speech the President dealt with the heroic anti-colonial and later anti-apartheid struggle the ANC has waged against both a distant and a resident [...]
In one of his seminal speeches Martin Luther King Jnr warns society that “in the end, we will remember not the words (or noises) of our enemies, but the silences of our friends”. The ascendance of Mr Julius Malema to what is arguably the most powerful position to be held [...]
The ANC’s Polokwane Conference marked the beginning of in-ANC strife for the soul of the movement as the nexus of social, political and economic life in South Africa. It marked the beginning of a transition from a movement schooled in the principle of democratic centralism to a one that ‘must’ [...]
The notion of a nation-state has over the last decade undergone a process of rigorous review to an extent that society has now become complacent to discuss it as a base concept for political engagement and discourse. The preoccupation with the growing hegemony of dominant economies and established ‘nation-states’ as [...]
As a coffee lover and a person that has taught himself to manage the chronic South African sickness of seeing everything in black and white, I one day went through an interesting experience on this white and black thing. I was at a café somewhere in Tshwane (if Kallie Kriel [...]
In one of his seminal speeches Martin Luther King Jnr warns society that “in the end, we will remember not the words (or noises) of our enemies, but the silences of our friends. The ascendance of Mr Julius Malema to what is arguably the most powerful position to be held [...]
