The in-ANC factional rivalry is, unfortunately, maturing to levels where fighting against each other is fast becoming the politics of being ANC. For as long as it existed, the liberation movement has been about addressing the national grievance of land dispossession and all that goes with it. The liberation [...]
I met Tito Khalo as a colleague and friend in 1993 when he recruited me to come and join them as a part-time lecturer at Setlogelo Technikon, now part of a Kader Asmal Policy merged Tshwane University of Technology. I knew him as a student at the South African [...]
The exposure of the PhalaPhala farm cash-in-furniture theft confirmed what has long been apparent; the anti-corruption and anti-state capture-based narrative New Dawn presidency was always at the risk of collapse unless it defined its own thesis of existence. The character of the governing party is never to be [...]
Šaka la hloka manamane ga le na bokamoso; translated 'a kraal that does not have calves has no future, is a Sepedi proverb that anchors the significance of succession planning in society, organizations, and institutions. The African National Congress, the kraal in this context, has a history of [...]
In his 2022 January 08 historic ANC annual state of the liberation movement speech, President Ramaphosa said "The movement must, therefore, undergo a fundamental and lasting process of renewal and rebuilding if it is to remain the effective and trusted agent of change. This change must find particular resonance in how [...]
The idea of liberation in South Africa has entered its consequential crisis. Until recently, a conviction of the liberation movement reared cohort of South African politicians has been confined to the rhetoric of seeing anything and anyone wielding institutional power as an enemy of 'the revolution'. That the [...]
South Africa is going through a difficult period of redefining itself as a democracy beyond the rhetorics of its past conflicts and tensions. Almost thirty-five years since the Mandela-De Klerk Accord, whose processing went through the robust test of the CODESA negotiations and ultimately chronicled as the 1996 [...]
Generations and/or age groups are agents of social change and carriers of ‘intellectual’ and organizational alternatives to the status quo. Generations, especially youth, have historically been sources or practical agents of opposition, rebellions, and revolutions, interrogating existing and established societal ideas, and demolishing the status quo, mostly through the [...]
1. The dawn of our democracy in 1994 marked a ‘doctrinal shift’ in how we understand the concept of liberation as the liberation movement has taught us.2. The concept of liberation has for a long time meant the arrival of freedoms that included outright restitution and restoration of colonial losses [...]
The ANC 55th Conference is getting close, the contest for leading Africa's oldest liberation movement is hotting up, policy rhetoric less defines the future of the liberation promise, the long-awaited final Zondo report is out, and recommendations are with the head of the national executive in whom [...]
