In explaining the importance of a trust relationship, a South African scholar tells of a story where a child would jump from an elevated position into the arms of a parent because the child trusts that the parent won't shift or fail to catch him or her. [...]
When dealing with non-state, or non-governmental corruption, including state capture, the South African academic media complex, its analyst community, and policymakers are typically employing a vocabulary or posture of non-engagement or outright silence. On the contrary when there are similar, or less impactful to the economy corruption stories, involving [...]
The African National Congress, as its name says was conceptualized as one of the most institutionalized responses to the institutionalization of imperialism and colonialism into a constitutional construct. At the turn of the 20th Century, and after a brutal non-black war about who has the right to [...]
Branch delegate purchase at conferences, manipulation of credentials at conferences to engineer election outcomes, funding of slates by the criminal underworld to create a better political environment for its existence, dearth of policy discourse at sub-national conferences, prerogative or arbitrary disbandment of organizational structures such as the woman's [...]
The resurfacing of urine and urinating at yet another of the historically white, and exclusively Afrikaner University, is a coded message about the maturity of our social cohesion if any at all. Watching the video, listening to its content, searching for condemnation from civil society movements that [...]
In December 2022, South Africa will emerge from one of its consequential in-ANC elective conferences, the 55th National Conference. At stake will be both the form and content that the ANC will take, with Ramaphosa's bid for a second term representing the ultimate of its contested form, and [...]
It is inevitable that wealth and power, the motive force for most tensions and conflicts affecting humanity, are moving away from their dispossession-determined locations in South Africa. The apartheid colonial order is giving way to one increasingly crafted by a new cohort of self-determined and purpose-driven South Africans [...]
The booing off the stage of Ramaphosa in Rustenburg is a paradigm shift on the scale of a head of state recall we saw in recent times. It was the dignity of the Office of the President that was also booed, by supporters of a governing alliance whose [...]
For a while, the politics of South Africa have been in an antithesis mode about almost everything. The last time we were in a thesis mode as a society, it was about what should our democratic future and order be. This was a time when we innovated what is [...]
Upon assuming office as the fifth President of South Africa for its sixth administration, President Ramaphosa in his State of the Nation Address to Parliament announced a new service delivery approach modeled around the centrality of the District (and Metropolitan) Municipal jurisdiction as the focal space within which [...]
