Isitifiketi: My Experience Beyond the Words and Melodies

‘This is my birth certificate, isitifiketi sami. The genesis of my story as a singer and writer.’ This is what I take from Jabulile Majola’s debut Extended Play (EP) project,…

My Thoughts, Nothing Much: A look at the Policy Rate.

Ingaba uvile nah? The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has decided to keep the policy rate, known as the repo rate at 7% and…

He Was Eleven When the State Decided He Was Dangerous

It is 11 July 1985. Winter in Alexandra is not the soft kind. The cold comes up through the soles of your shoes. It lives in the corrugated iron of…

How Many February’s Until We Are Heard?

We cannot continue this cycle of “February outrage” followed by “March amnesia.” We cannot accept a reality where the start of the academic year is synonymous with the start of…

Trump is a Gift to Africa

The incumbent President of the United States simultaneously disrupts these corroding forces of neo-colonialism by exposing their holding hand of exploitation, and gifts Africa an opportune window to strengthen its…

Trump Again Disrupt the US Ontological Nuclear Security in East Asia.

Who gets to have nuclear and why? What does it mean for status? These are questions that have recently resurfaced on the media and in academia when Israel in collaboration…

The Paradox of the African Unity Sermon.

Although we thirst so much to see African unity, the same thirst is not reflected on the ground which creates a paradoxical situation in the sermon for everyone interested and…

Madibaz Youth Parliament: A New Era of Student Representation and Pragmatic State Building.

What role does the student-community have to play in the process of pragmatically building a state that works? Universities are by far the best environment to train leaders who possess…

Reclaiming our African Narrative: Reconnecting to the Mother – Why African Knowledge Must Return Home?

I often think of my grandmother when I think about knowledge. Not because she wrote books or lectured in a university, but because she knew things. She knew when it…

[Opinion Thought] We lack a State: A Philosophical and Political Perspective.

We lack a state. This is a concern mostly to confront the student-youth community. It is an indication of a leadership vacuum and a dwindling democratic state transformation project.