The proverbial story of a performance measure for one indicator at the expense of the rest has caught up with South Africa's obsession to prove its state capture and corruption theory correct. The tale goes 'a physiotherapist hospital was lauded for its best performance in keeping patients for a [...]
The ANC’s succession debate has again taken centre stage in the analysis of all manner of discourse in South Africa. The contest for political power is now firmly within the ANC domain. Opposing factions have once again concretised around personalities and not ‘policy positions’ and ‘promises for change’ even [...]
The outcomes of the November 2021 Municipal Elections, unprecedented as they have been and still are, might have brought to an end the transformation rhetoric as a currency of the South African voter market. When the fourth decade since Nelson Mandela was released began, relations between South Africans were [...]
“Just call me Arch”, read the inscriptions on the t-shirts he wore during defiance campaigns when he was not in his famous pink cassock. He was the people’s bishop who was always in the frontline. He took a stand against apartheid when he left teaching as a protest [...]
One of the readings that I visited as part of the project I am currently busy with is Professor Mahmood Mamdani’s book ‘Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities’ (2020). The book helps one navigate some of the complex questions that confront us today,What the [...]
As we reminiscence on the closing of the curtain by a cohort of leadership in our country and the World, we are saddened to hear about the passing on of one of Africa’s epitome of leadership, Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu, the former Archbishop of the Anglican Church of the [...]
The Covid-19 pandemic has wrecked havoc to many a human system and ways of life that humanity will emerge beyond it with new behaviours and an altered civilisation. The greatest of human socialisation institutions where norms, values, and mores are transmitted to each other and modelled for the next [...]
The Constitution of South Africa directs that 'in the Republic, government is constituted as national, provincial, and local spheres of government which are distinctive, interdependent, and interrelated. All spheres of government and all organs of state within each sphere must observe and adhere to principles of co-operative government'. Amongst others [...]
The stability of an order is a function of how integrated or complementary its political elite is. Elite consensus on basic values that should undergird a society is as much a prerequisite for a high performance political system as it is a potential guarantor for unresponsive and oligarchic government. [...]
Few policy issues have attracted more attention in an ANC Presidential term than the challenge of protecting the post-1994 gains, as in a Ramaphosa term. The African National Congress has, and through struggle and sacrifice, sponsored the idea of freedom for the majority of South Africans, most of whom are Black, [...]
