Feint and Margin

A few weeks ago, I spent most of my Sunday morning at an ANCYL Johannesburg Region emergency general council, which had been called by the ANCYL provincial leadership, here in Gauteng. After all the drama and tension of the emergency RGC, as so often happens, we all went out for drinks and spent time socialising [...]

There has been much uproar in South Africa recently, with the ruling ANC, proposing some amendments to the country’s much celebrated constitution. The ANC has proposed a review of the constitutionally guaranteed powers of South Africa’s judiciary amongst many other suggestions that it has put forward for public discussion. Naturally, this has drawn much criticism [...]

Watching the recent service delivery protests in the Mbombela Municipality in Mpumalanga and in Grabouw in the Western Cape, with people burning down schools and vandalising property, made me realise how much we still need to grow as a people, if South Africa is indeed going to develop into one of the successful nations of [...]

Following an article I wrote recently, titled, Africanisation And Globalisation: Are They Diametrically Opposed to Each Other, one of our South African readers, gave the following feedback, “Mugabe, well written article and very enlightening; something I have been pondering, would be interesting if you could shed light on the notion of Africanism in the context [...]

Amidst all the controversy about nationalisation and whether it will or won’t be government policy in South Africa over the next few years, I read a book recently which just may contain within it, a key solution to the many problems that face not only South Africa, but Africa as a whole. The book, written [...]

I have a friend, who just so happens to be a petrol attendant. As a petrol attendant, he doesn’t earn much money and he’s part of the millions of South Africans for whom life is nothing but a daily grind to overcome bitter hardships. He is still very young, lives in a shack and has [...]

The recent furore over the DASO image depicting a mixed race couple got me thinking about DA parliamentary leader, Lindiwe Mazibuko and what she has to offer South African society. Mazibuko’s rise up the ranks within the DA has been hailed by the mainstream, liberal media as a sign that the DA is transforming and [...]

Two issues that have made international news headlines over the past year or so, have served to reveal the naked hypocrisy of the West, in its engagement with people from other parts of the world. Over the past year, Syria has been experiencing massive social upheaval, with civilians calling for political reforms and that Syria’s [...]

Watching the recent escalation of tensions between South Sudan and Sudan and also in a different context between the USA and Iran, with both situations threatening to explode into full scale war, got me thinking about the world of International Diplomacy and the need for new theories to inform its practice, if we are going [...]

A few weeks ago, I read an exceptional book by Thomas C. Oden titled, How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind, which given the central role that Christianity played in the development of Western civilisation for the majority of the centuries before the Age of Enlightenment, revealed the critical role that African thinking and African writers [...]