It is my pleasure to be invited to this conference. I have been asking myself what qualifies me to be the keynote speaker. In my quest to find the correct answer, because I know there are many another incorrect answers, I stumbled on the fact that I like controversy. Controversy is to an academic what a forest is to adventures. The conference invite opened with the following words with the changing political landscape in South Africa a new phenomenon dubbed “service delivery protests”, which appears analogous to the pre-1994 “protests against apartheid”, is emerging and is beginning to dominate the public intellectual space’. Whilst I thought it is over it went on to say ‘This phenomenon is becoming ubiquitous aspect of our changing political landscape’, and this is where I knew the crux of the conspiracy is. However I was neutralised by the fact that two critical questions were then asked, and these are; • Are our institutional architecture and policy framework appropriately geared to...
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