A Cursory Reflection on the 2024 Elections
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LEADERSHIP ANONYMITY
By Nelvis Qekema AZAPO is so allergic to personality and leadership cults that there prevails a tacit promotion of what I prefer to call the value of Leadership Anonymity, which is itself a contradiction in terms. How can you be a leader and still…
THE UNIFYING SPIRIT OF BANTU BIKO
THE UNIFYING SPIRIT OF BANTU BIKO By Mosibudi Mangena14 September 2022 I spent the whole weekend in Ginsberg, Bantu Biko’s township, on what I will call a pilgrimage. I left Polokwane on Friday the 9th September 2022 and returned on Monday the 12th. This…
SELF-HATRED IS BEHIND THE TAVERN KILLINGS BY CDE NELVIS QEKEMA
SELF-HATRED IS BEHIND THE TAVERN KILLINGS B Nelvis Qekema 17 July 2022 On the heels of the Enyobeni tragedy where 21 teenagers died, more tavern deaths have taken place in various black communities this past weekend. A cynical view is that government may have…
CITIZENS SHOULD BE THE ROCK BY DR MOSIBUDI MANGENA
CITIZENS SHOULD BE THE ROCK By Mosibudi MangenaAt the end of the Zimbabwean liberation war and the exiles were preparing to go back to their country in 1980, the fiery ZANU-PF Secretary-General Edgar Tekere, is reported to have said that he feared governance more…
RUNNING BLIND FOLDED BY DR MOSIBUDI MANGENA
A Cuban mathematics and science tutor who was part of a group I was working with in the Department of Education, was bemused by the tendency of South Africans to call big meetings to attend to issues that should be dealt with routinely and…
WE ARE AN AMORAL SOCIETY
Most of us do not do right things because we are afraid of the police. We do the right things because it is the right thing to do. If the majority of us were to behave properly only because we feared law enforcement agencies,…
NOBODY OWNS THE CITIZENS BY MOSIBUDI MANGENA
When the time to go back to Zimbabwe from Mozambique at the end of the Zimbabwean war of liberation arrived, the militant Edgar Tekere is said to have expressed his profound fear of governance. He was secretary-general of ZANU-PF that waged its armed struggle…
THE IDIOCY OF ETHNICITY BY MOSIBUDI MANGENA
“…Xhosas want their Transkei, the Zulus their Zululand etc. Coloured people harbour secret hopes of being classified as ‘brown Afrikaners’ and therefore meriting admittance into the white laager while Indian people might be given a vote to swell the buffer zone between whites and…
OUR YOUTH DESERVE BETTER BY MOSIBUDI MANGENA
Chatting to a Cuban mathematics teacher several years ago, she casually observed that South Africans have a tendency to call large meetings and talk about issues that should just be attended to as a matter of course. She was seconded to our country by…
OUR WAR AGAINST OUR KIDS BY MOSIBUDI MANGENA
It is one of the most basic instincts of adults to protect their children against harm. In fact, almost all animals are at their fiercest and most dangerous when trying to protect their young against any real or perceived danger. What kind of adults…
OVERPROMISING BUT UNDERPERFORMING
By Mosibudi Mangena That “silly” season of campaigning is upon the South African population once more. Thousands of politicians will be burning the soles of their shoes walking the streets, knocking at doors, kissing unsuspecting babies, engaging citizens and telling their stories. Rallies will…
TRIPPED BY MINDLESS STUPIDITY
Commenting on the tendency of many African leaders to sell their people and countries to the highest bidder shortly after the freedom struggle, an African American fellow once remarked that if he had to do that, he would demand billions of dollars from the…
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