The th!nc Foundation

  "One of the pressing challenges of the South African political context, both as a science and lived experience, as well as a theory developing space, is the historical traditions of the ANC, which have defined its story as a continuum of defining and redefining its character and purpose objectives. Whilst many scholars have written about the ANC, the default posture has mostly been narrating its history and not its traditions as a core substrate of its character. Its rich history and traditions have made it a heritage site or space. Its overall contribution to liberalism in Africa and convergence of ideologies in the ongoing construction of democraticness in the continent remains an unrecorded opportunity". "For a while, there have been strange behaviours that could easily be characterised as the subversion of the ANC's traditions and by extension its heritage as Africa's foremost institution that lives consultation and policy engagement with its members"....

Rather than allowing our thinking or thoughts to be enslaved to narratives that follow existing paradigms of and about our Africanness, we can engage with these narratives while in conversation with great writings by diverse authors who help us to understand dimensions of truth, goodness, and beauty that we cannot access without drawing on their unique experiences and ways of being in and seeing the world. In this sense, the writings of Black intellectuals such as Anton Lembede, AP Mda, Robert Sobukwe, Steven BaNtu Biko, and many others should be the essential part of all of our education in truth, goodness, and beauty. Black Intellectualism is not only about black intellectuals seeking to recover “what people in the past meant by the things they said and what these things ‘meant’ to them.” It is about exploring what concerns the livelihoods of societies they come from, live in, and live with. More acutely, it focuses extensively on black livelihoods discourses and cultural innovations...

  As the arc of governing a constitutional democracy anchored on improving the quality of life of all citizens bends towards the reality of service delivery, the governing African National Congress is entering one of its consequential policy choice phases; to privatise or not to privatise state-owned entities.  The proposal by the Minister of Electricity, Dr  Kgosientsho  Ramokgopa, to sell off Eskom power stations to bidders is not only a doctrinal shift for the ANC but an indication that the governing party is in interacting with the reality about the power of the market to drive service delivery politics as decided by the relative capacities of private capital. The brute truth is that South Africa’s energy sector is on auction , and it  is the dates of transactions and asset transfers that are still in lag. What South Africans still have as solace to have a policy or otherwise say in how the inevitable should be, is the Constitutionality or otherwise of the d...