By Motsoakgomo I Papi Nkoli I am a child of South Africa. I am born in, raised, nurtured and protected by, South Africa and her people; And to South Africa, her people, leaders and national values I am loyal. Not knowing whether ridicule, imprisonment, or death await me, I am entitled to carry out my …

Review By Ashley Nyiko Mabasa, Wits University Sociology Honours Student and YCLSA Branch Secretary In The Corruption of Capitalism: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Pay, Guy Standing outlines how SAPs created crony capitalists who corrupted African and Latin American systems of governance to establish themselves as “plutocrats”. From the onset Standing explains how rentier …

Speaking, listening, writing and reading in the ANC is aimed at a certain relationship between what we say to each other about issues central to the organisation and the country, and about the matrix of ideas that shape our deliberations and actions. They are acts of mutual recognition, of understanding and knowing each other again …

Re-Imagining Tools Needed To Discourage Corrupt Practices In ANC At face value, the resignation of the Minister of Finance on Monday, 8th October 2018, may have set a precedence, or standard that would need to be upheld, or improved, by other ANC leaders. This begins a renewed culture of ethical leadership, taking responsibility for one’s …

ANC self-correction needs partnership with progressive civil society formations As part of the New Dawn, ANC has a responsibility to recalibrate its relationship with civil society formations in order to regain its position as a leader of society. ANC must reengage progressive civil society organizations so that a new equilibrium can be established. By Mandla …

The lesson from the anti-apartheid era is that social capital is powerful and cannot be undermined. If channelled correctly it can build, but if not harnessed, it can destroy. Attentiveness and responsiveness by the governing party, and the state in general, becomes imperative. By Reneva Fourie In 2017 South Africa witnessed a resurgence of civic …

The old and new political as well as economic elites are engaging to determine the shares of the new political order. Contrastingly, some of the new elements of the political and economic class are conscious of the dangers of losing the support of the poor and the working class. Hence the need to continue shouting …

It is the dependency of the state on business that predisposes states under capitalism to be inherently captured by capital. Without business investment, the state cannot generate revenue from taxation in order to undertake its function. If the state leadership or governing political party presides over a declining economy characterised by unemployment and insufficient state revenue to finance social services, it runs the risk of electoral defeat. So, it is in the material self-interest of the state’s incumbents for business to invest.

What is the ethical foundation of South Africa’s democratic society? In what way is this rooted in the struggle against apartheid colonialism? How do we define state capture; and what are the prospects for society and the ANC to re-assert ethical leadership? By Joel Netshitenzhe, ANC NEC Member South Africa is emerging from a period …

The writing “If you don’t know, learn. If you know, teach” are attributed to Pan-Africanist and pro-progressive books seller Una Mulzac. Her bookshop, named Liberation, had a logo that featured an upraised, shackled black hand breaking free from a chain with these insightful words inscribed to it. As recently appointed Editor of Umrabolo, one finds …