This was developed into a fully-fledged Working Paper, published by the Thinc Foundation Ours has always been a struggle for the creation of a national democratic society. For this noble mission, we are proponents of the National Democratic Revolution that must usher in a national democratic society in all its [...]
At the pinnacle of having successfully transformed South African society to conform to Apartheid, the BJ Voster-led National Party government sought to start the cultural assimilation of 'its subjects' through the introduction of Afrikaans as the medium of instruction. In pursuit of establishing a racial hierarchy which would have permeated [...]
The political ideas characteristic of shallow citizens, politicians, and analysts are those of gossip, prejudice, and shibboleths. On the other hand, political ideas characteristic of candidates to be a leader of society brigade member are facts, truth, impartiality, and being unconventional. What broad pooling of ideas and trailblazing should be about [...]
South Africa's first democratically elected President, Nelson Mandela, jokingly advised that if the new democratic government does to us what the apartheid government did, we must do to it what we did to the apartheid government. The apartheid government ran a parliamentary democracy system. The new democratic government has a [...]
As South Africa is undergoing one of the external to its context pressures to its otherwise volatile currency, the rand, pundits and thinkers alike are pondering on how it extricates itself from its legal obligations in terms of its statutes. The influence of the rand on the economy runs deep. [...]
Suppose Andre de Ruyter's claims survive critical scrutiny and ultimately become facts, and collectively the body of his facts stands. In that case, they will, with or without our permission, constitute (scientific) knowledge, and scientists will continually build the (scientific) credibility of those facts through repeated citations in rigorously peer-reviewed [...]
A bureaucracy is the mind of the state. It thinks, analyses, and implements the political program of the government. Once political objectives are translated into public policy, it is a bureaucracy that follows through with financing, staffing, devising work procedures, and ultimately monitoring and evaluating progress. This is the [...]
"One of the pressing challenges of the South African political context, both as a science and lived experience, as well as a theory developing space, is the historical traditions of the ANC, which have defined its story as a continuum of defining and redefining its character and purpose objectives. Whilst [...]
Rather than allowing our thinking or thoughts to be enslaved to narratives that follow existing paradigms of and about our Africanness, we can engage with these narratives while in conversation with great writings by diverse authors who help us to understand dimensions of truth, goodness, and beauty that we cannot [...]
As the arc of governing a constitutional democracy anchored on improving the quality of life of all citizens bends towards the reality of service delivery, the governing African National Congress is entering one of its consequential policy choice phases; to privatise or not to privatise state-owned entities. The proposal by the [...]
