The 55th ANC National Conference is less than thirty days from happening. The in-ANC coalitions battle lines are drawn, branches have made their nomination choices, delegates are known, the venue is soon to be quarantined, and the ANC won't be the same come thanksgiving time. The conference is billed [...]
The ANC is once again getting into succession or leadership battles. The contest for political power within the ANC is in full swing. The contest will continue the despoliation of the ANC’s liberation movement character without introducing a party political alternative. In its conduct of the succession discourse, [...]
Since the advent of South Africa's constitutional democracy, our political system has become more complex. The shift from a rule-by-law to a rule-of-law democratic system meant an inundation of policies to debate and understand by society and the ascending political elite. The information intensity required to govern [...]
To be African and express the National in you has been incubated for the past 110 years by the African National Congress. For a century, the ANC has been an institution of leadership through which African aspirations and imaginations in the political economy, politics, socio-economic livelihood, international relations, and ideation [...]
There is no sign that the renewal and rebuilding program of the 'leader of society brigade' within the broader membership of the ANC is slowing down. This is despite the liberation struggle nostalgia-dependent and 'putting-the-ANC-in-disrepute-filled' cohort of members fighting back with pedestrian rhetoric. Notable in their [...]
In the remedial actions section of Advocate Thuli Madonsela, now Professor at Stellenbosch University, and former Public Protector, report on the State of Capture, she recommended the 'establishment of a Judicial Commission of Inquiry to investigate "alleged bridge of the Executive Members Ethics Code of 1998", "awarding [...]
The centrality of integrity, as virtue leaders must possess, has become one criterion to score high in many indices of ethical leadership. Everyday experience shows that societies are willing to trade parts of their envisaged democratic order for greater ethicalness. On such grounds, member integrity management systems [...]
The era of thinking in South Africa is not returning, it never left, and only its activists stopped their noble role. The arc of ignorance bends away from national competitiveness. As individuals, we easily believe our thoughts are the context of all contexts, and yet our collective [...]
A wave of South Africanness has caught up with the country and might be redefining the nature, character, and content of politics. The transition from the apartheid regime to a constitutional democracy based on the rule of law and supremacy of the constitution has ushered in a phase [...]
It was in 2004, on a sweltering night in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). We were sitting in one of the only two good hotels that had survived the destruction of war when Kabila senior led his troops in the march to Kinshasa [...]
