Feint and Margin

So where do we begin? In my thought we need to create a platform where the African story will be communicated to the world in our own way on our terms. This is because in the midst of the poverty, suffering, wars and mal administration there are some positive things happening on the African continent. [...]

This is part one of Branding Article. Feint and Margin will publish the second part in next weeks publication. “I am an African by identity and a South African by citizenship” I began this article with this statement as I look at some of the issues that are hampering the progress of the African continent [...]

A few years ago, I happened upon an article that was entitled the art of strategic questions. The premise of the article was that for people to make significant advances they need to ask the right questions to solve any type of problem. It is upon this premises that I base my thoughts in this [...]

A continent in despair – Have we lost hope? It was the ancient King of Israel Solomon who said that hope that is deferred the body sick. And indeed the poet Langston Hughes penned the words of that now famous poem: A dream deferred. Following an article by one of my colleagues at Feintandmargin.com titled [...]

One of the blessings of growing up in South Africa in the mid to late nineteen nineties is that I grew up in a country that was truly alive with possibility. Mine was a generation that did not really directly experience the repressive laws of the apartheid era. My memories of the apartheid era are [...]

South Africa and the dream deferred What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does [...]

Following my previous article on convenience justice and South Africa there has been a lot of other developments in the country in particular in the political scene. Amongst other things Julius Malema is being formally investigated for his business dealings, and as I pen this article, his disciplinary hearing is making headlines. In addition to [...]

I have been following one of my Feint and Margin colleagues S. Mahlaba’s enlightening article on agriculture, rural development and the challenges that must be overcome if agriculture is to help us solve the unemployment that South Africa is currently facing. I happened to read an interesting research on the future role of cities in [...]

On the 31 May 2005 Judge Hillary Squires delivered his judgement on The State versus Schabir Shaik and eleven others. This judgement was a watershed moment in South Africa, for many reasons. There were many people that were jubilant from those who claim to be pro justice to the political enemies of then deputy president [...]

I have recently joined one of the amateur football clubs competing in the Castle regional league in the Dr Kenneth Kaunda district in an administrative capacity. I have always thought that the complaints about poor service in municipal offices and many other government institutions have become part of our national vocabulary and therefore we use [...]