The th!nc Foundation

 Dr FM Lucky Mathebula (Prof)* Humanity has constantly been interrupted by its advances to upend the status quo established as the basis of coexistence with the self and the natural environment. The need to overcome time and distance is central to humanity's pursuit of betterment. Speed to arrive, contact, complete, and produce has been responsible for most industrial revolutions. Twinning has been the urge to do at the least possible time without compromising the quality of the outcome. Necessity grew commensurate with the time it took to address it. The essence of being human is understood through time and experience.  With its precision in determining human endeavour's outputs, the advent of the digital revolution has unleashed a cognitive revolution, fast outpacing humans' capability to cope, notwithstanding its being a creature of human competence. As the convergence of disciplines and constellation of technologies come together as intelligence beyond organic human c...

When we completed our Secondary Teachers Diploma, together with two cohorts that followed us, at the Transvaal College of Education, and we later realised many other colleges, in 1986, we vowed to become force multipliers of the liberation struggle through the power of the chalk and chalkboard.   We left the college with a battle song ‘sesi bona nge sigci somoya, sesi bona nga madol’nkomo, Siyaya siyaya’. We left the college with a battle song' sesi bona nge sigci somoya, sesi bona nga madol'nkomo, Siyaya siyaya'. This song, a call to war with anyone, system, or force that sought to stop us from becoming a critical exponent and multiplier to the struggle for liberation, was a powerful symbol of our commitment. We understood the influence we were going to have on society. I was fortunate to find a teaching post in Mamelodi. Mamelodi was the bedrock of the ANC underground. At one point, it had a significantly larger number of MK operatives than several other townships. Sa...