This is a response to an article in the Mail and Guardian on the 27th of April, 2023, titled The invisibility of Black professionals, by Professor Hlengani Mathebula of the University of Limpopo Business School. The rendering foregrounds matters arising from the piece with a view to giving a completed [...]
On April 27, every year since 1995, South Africa stops, and the nation is supposedly celebrating its Freedom Day. The question that may not have received attention is what South Africans celebrate beyond that April 27, 1994, extended the full franchise to non-whites as they were characterised at some point. [...]
In the years leading up to the 1994 democratic breakthrough in South Africa, what the ANC stood for, as a hegemony of the liberation struggle, was unquestionable. The inhumanity of apartheid, the flagrant marginalisation of women, and the moral authority of the apartheid state to govern without the will of [...]
The advent of a possible national coalition government occasioned by an envisaged low electoral performance of the ANC in 2024 has sparked puzzling thinking about the coalition the ANC might have to form. At the same time, the government of national unity cooperation between the ANC and the liberal right [...]
When President Ramaphosa won the 54th National Conference of the ANC in 2017, and later the 2019 National Elections for him to be sworn in as President of the Republic, many South Africans breathed a sigh of relief. Ramaphosa's NEC recalled Jacob Zuma in early 2018, and one centre of [...]
As early as 2004, when the governing African National Congress received 45% of the Western Cape Provincial votes, few policy analysts, scholars, and pundits in South Africa were waxing lyrical about the stirrings of a coalition politics future in the making. They appreciated the truth of a majority rule system [...]
For a while, the idea of being a member of the ANC was ideationally enterprising for scholars, thinkers, and activists alike. Established by a cohort of mission schools and foreign universities educated BaNtu Black elites, the ANC's point of departure was instructive to the intellectualism that undergirded its entire liberation [...]
In October 2021, on the occasion of the BMF's time to review its leadership and elect new or retain its leaders, I wrote; "The BMF remains one of the most vocal organisations that advocates the 'Black' cause in its area of influence. Naturally, it will become a 'node' of 'interests' and [...]
Once South Africa starts to appreciate the chasm that separates insiders from outsiders in any setting and, more acutely, the inside story of and about the politics of our transition, we will quickly build the bridges that matter for our political order to advance further than expectations of its Constitution. It [...]
When the ANC meets to finalize its go-to-voters message for the 2024 national and provincial elections, the nation will be waiting with the question, 'what will the massage be this time? Polls and surveys indicate a population ready to face the upcoming elections with a resolve to make them yield [...]
