TRIBUTE TO NTATE DON NKADIMENG, A GALLANT FIGHTER FOR FREEDOM Death is untimely, not because there is no time for it. It is untimely because it comes when we least expect it. It is untimely because it does not allow us an opportunity to…
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…
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,…
On 12 April 1980, the Conference of the Black Consciousness Movement in London managed to bring together most of the disparate BC formations in exile. The Black Consciousness Movement of Azanian (BCMA) was born as an umbrella body that brought together the various BC…
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…
“…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…
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…
