Governance

The South economy is the largest in Africa. Yet, since 2009 SA has had the distinction of beating the entire world as the most economically skewed society. This lopsidedness is not new.

The end year public opinion polls are in. The prognosis is not good.

More than half the people think the country is headed in the wrong direction.

This paper was first presented at the Open Forum of the National Congress of Resistance and Democracy (CNRD), held on Saturday, October 26, 2013 in Abidjan, the Ivory Coast.

I have refrained from commenting on the pact between the All Progressives Alliance (APC) and the “new PDP” because, to some extent, I am involved.

Post-conflict South Africa has become an unwanted orphan of International Criminal Law.

The elimination of apartheid was on the agenda of the United Nations from its inception. On June 22, 1946 the Indian government requested that the discriminatory treatment of Indians in the Union of South Africa be included on the agenda of the very first session of the General Assembly.

In a candid admission of the nation’s inability to independently and strategically channel its enormous resources towards advancement, the government of Nigeria announced the decision to privatize the country’s near-comatose refineries by 2014.

Fundamentalism is a widespread problem. It often manifests in a religious context - making it highly visible - but there are plenty of secular fundamentalists too. If we are to understand fundamentalism we should not view it as a religious problem: It is a psychological one.

La main qui donne est toujours au dessus de celle qui reçoit - Amadou Hampâté Bâ

‘It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world’- Mary Wollstonecraft, ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Woman’ (1792)

'Any Herero found within the German borders, with or without a gun, with or without cattle, will be shot. I no longer receive women or children. I will drive them back to their people or order them to be shot.