The th!nc Foundation

Families are engineered units of society, mothers are engineers Foundations of civilisations, present and future The engineer of my family, a shepherd of my children’s souls, A blacksmith of their character, a moulder of their personality The needle finder in darkness, the stitch maker in cases of torn coverings Designer of ingredients for the cake of joy, a sauce to our dinner table discussions The general manager of all family secrets, the secret manager of generations The emotional diplomat of repute yet the reputational risk of diplomacy The cushion for all heads, the headless cushion for all challenges The lover of all homely odours, the odour of love for all homes The finder of all things lost, the loser of all things found Her love makes any winter to be summer, her tenderness mock the dawns of spring Her spirit creates warmth in all corners; all corners have her as the ultimate spirit She is the mama of all, and the all to mamas..the cycle never ends. Loving is what makes you a...

In his announcement of the latest Cabinet reshuffle President Zuma created an operative paradigm that informed and/or informs his governmenr and/or governance approach. He again declared that his administration is based on the ideas, views and policy injunctions of men and women who "know where our people live". In his book "do South Africans Exist" Ivor Chipkins quotes Chantal Mouffe that "democracy always entails relations of inclusion -exclusion that speak to a notion of the political frontier". The political frontier of South Africa has been most fluid when it attempts to define 'the people' as objects of political legitimisation processes. The 'people' remains a critical concept in the definition of 'who is a South African and who is not' and very much in the dichotomous Mouffe inclusion and exclusion discourse. President Zuma's reference to the 'people' with the criteria of where they live calls therefore for the i...

Portrayer of social phenomenon, separator of class Distinguisher of orientations, extinguisher of opposite mindsets Setter of collective thought, respecter of individual rebellion You define what society sees not, yet you see what society cannot define Meanderings of power are concentrated in your collections Collectors delineate what you will be worth and mean In passages of power you institutionalise ideology and culture In ideological passages you define power relations Your survival is but a question of affordability and promotion Generations die and yet you revive them into the present You are capital to the rich, and the capital of the poor Social cohesion capitalises you, economic coercion recapitalises your character Wall silence gets broken once you are hung, yet you hang wall makers Aesthetics cope with your impositions whilst you impose cultural hope Fortune is painted through your many dots and curves Every time you appear you dispense harmonious melody Born by imaginations...