In her book Shock Doctrine The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Naomi Klein introduces how conditions for shock therapy as an economic intervention could be created to create a context within which disaster capitalism could thrive. The mooted state of national disaster discussed by the governing African National Congress is [...]
The Democratic Alliance (DA), South Africa's official opposition party, and others are in court over the ANC's cadre deployment policy. Whilst the DAs action is plausible to the extent that it will put into judicial test the correctness or otherwise of a cadre deployment policy in democratic order such [...]
South Africa has experienced unprecedented electricity load shedding since 2018 and has yet to show any hope of a quicker recovery, given its commitments to 'alternative energy sources'. This might go in history as the most energy-vulnerable era of South African life since the dawn of democracy. The reasons for [...]
Over the last few years, in fact, in the previous fifteen years, South Africa experienced a slide in the capacity and capability of the state to meet its executive and constitutional obligations to its citizens. The post-apartheid reconstruction and development component of the democratic order being created has been [...]
As the arc of political hope for the future bends towards delusion for those that celebrated the outcomes of NASREC 2.0, if you like the 55th ANC Conference, the question is, have the tendencies that lost the elections left the ANC. While every hegemon tends to believe it can [...]
Often, we hear those wiser than many declare that you begin to change, grow, and transform only after you've stepped outside your comfort zone. We only understand what they mean until we encounter personalities that embody this truism. In the life of an academically focused human being, the journey [...]
The creation or building of a political order is an idea that develops over a sustained period of time and is in all instances a conglomeration of various interests into a few 'national' interests or 'elite consensus' on diverse interests. It is an outcome of an inner circle, surrounded by [...]
The African National Congress is the oldest political formation in South African politics. Its establishment was a response to the exclusion of natives from what would arguably be the template for the political order that shaped South Africa's constitutional history and its variants of democracy. It aggregated native political [...]
This is the amplification of a presentation to the Charity and Faith Mission Church by Pastor Sibongile Sithole. On the occasion of preparing for the 2023 prophetic word by General Overseer Titus Sithole.As we enter 2023, it is essential to do so with appropriate encouragement and inspiration. The oncoming 365 [...]
As we reminiscence on the closure of the 2022 World Cup spectacle held in Qatar, with Argentina winning the tournament and ushering Lionel Messi as the new Greatest of All Times in his generation, we are punctuated in our excitement by news of the passing on of Edson [...]
