CARRY THAT G20 ENERGY STRAIGHT INTO DECEMBER
In a matter of days, South Africa will step sprightly into the full swing of the festive season. As the famous adage goes: Ke Dezemba Boss! (It’s December Boss!) But this year’s festive will be particularly special. This December, we’ll be riding a wave only a few countries get to experience. The afterglow of the momentously successful […]
WHY GIVE THANKS?
Sarah Josepha Hale, a writer, editor, and early advocate of education for women, and an opponent of slavery, (who was the author of the children’s poem “Mary had a Little Lamb”) had waged a decades-long campaign for Thanksgiving to be a national day, as opposed to being observed only by some states and on different […]
OPEN LETTER TO AFRICA
“My Real Investment Wasn’t Cement, Sugar, or Oil — It Was My Daughters.” I’ve spent my life building industries. But factories can be copied. Deals can be replicated. Capital can be replaced. What cannot be replaced… is leadership. That’s why I didn’t raise heirs. I raised architects. Not for fame.Not for inheritance.But for responsibility. You […]
HERE TO STAY: MOTHER TONGUE BILINGUAL LEARNING REINFORCED AS A SILVER BULLET TO SOLVE SA’S DIRE LITERACY CRISIS
2025 has been a watershed year for South Africa’s Mother Tongue-based Bilingual Education (MTbBE) “equaliser” policy. It has also been the year that confirmed the country’s severe literacy crisis. Casting a shadow on South Africa’s ability to achieve its 2030 goal that all 10-year-olds will be able to read for meaning, last week’s release of […]
AUTOMATION, WITH INCLUSION, COULD BRING OPPORTUNITY
Just last week, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) finally offered the nation a glimmer of relief with news that our notorious unemployment rate had dipped. The report stated that the official unemployment rate has dropped to 31.9% in the third quarter of 2025 – with about 248 000 people gaining employment. This has been an […]
PRETORIA’S GREAT BETRAYAL: HOW SOUTH AFRICA BECAME THE WEAKEST LINK IN BRICS
In global geopolitics, alliances are not just about friendship. They revolve around power, trust, and principle. South Africa’s recent actions raise uncomfortable questions about its true loyalties. Once a strong voice of the Global South and a strategic pillar in BRICS, South Africa now seems the weakest link in a bloc meant to challenge Western […]
MOTIVATED FARMERS EAT OUT OF THE PALM OF AGRICLUTURE MEC SAMBATHA’S HAND
North West MEC for Agriculture and Rural Development, Madoda Sambatha, was in his best element as he motivated farmers to improve their skills, learn the tricks of successful farming and establish effective networks of a win-win nature. Speaking off-the-cuff, and totally unscripted, Sambatha offered farmers tips and insights, the do’s and the don’ts of their […]
MEC SAMBATHA LEADS FROM THE FRONT AS HE LAUCHES “PLANTING SEASON” SURROUNDED BY HAPPY FARMERS
Madoda Sambatha, the North West MEC for the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, is a man on a mission. He wants all farmers in the province to be equipped with knowledge and skill in their line of work. Too many farmers enter the industry on the ticket of Black Empowerment, and oftentimes many do […]
“FLUENT IN EVERYTHING BUT OURSELVES” – THE SILENT EXTINCTION OF AFRICAN LANGUAGES
Every year, hundreds of African languages move closer to extinction, not because they are forgotten, but because they are systematically erased. Across our continent, languages that once carried our wisdom, history, humour, and heritages are disappearing. They are being replaced — not by natural evolution, but by a system that rewards foreign tongues and punishes […]
MAKING A ‘BOOTLEGGER’S TURN’ AWAY FROM HELL
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s October 2 call for “a philosophy of complexity” to be quickly devised and applied to diplomacy has been given a response, of sorts, this past Saturday, October 25. Those at work to construct what Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche calls “A New International Security and Development Architecture” by means of which […]