This whole world, especially the African continent, is fast running out of leadership material.
When you look around, it is very easy to see successful men and women who have "made it" in politics or business, whatever that means.
In fact, the ...
"Over the past 25 years, there have been a number of coconuts, non-whites and whites who have, overtly or covertly, accused authentic blacks of being racists," says Memela in his recent "Dear coconuts, there are no black racists blog". He does not de...
I am not an ardent follower or scholar of Steve Bantu Biko who died this week back in 1977 at the hands of the brutal South African security police. But I venture to ask ... what would he feel, what would he do in present day South Africa were he ali...
I was not unsurprisingly taken aback when I heard that the latest occupant of the Union Buildings expressed his opposition to a national debate on race. Being from the school of thought that views deliberation as the cornerstone of a democratic socie...
In a timeless collection of African short stories, folk tales and poetry, edited by Barbara Nolen, the poem titled The Moon succinctly captures what this polemic is about. Let me reproduce the said poem:
"The moon lights the earth
It lights the e...
We have seen the evidence: it seems voters are not impressed by Steve Biko’s Black Consciousness or Robert Sobukwe’s Pan-Africanism.
There is now sufficient evidence for people to form their own judgement as to whether Azapo and the PAC have t...
Allow me to make a bold claim: it was not the ANC that brought us liberation. It was a vehicle that the people used to bring themselves to freedom. Just like the newfound Cope cannot claim to be the defender of the Constitution. The people are merely...
I’m pretty damn sure I was the first white person in South Africa to be fired by a black person.
I am revealing this little-known truth now in the hope that such credentials might earn me a place at the back of the queue behind those gay, disabl...
“MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains……common liberty results from the nature of man. His first law is to provide for his own preservation, his first cares are those which he owes to himself; and, as soon as he reaches years of disc...
One thing that I find pathetic is the whole notion of a black thought leader. Such a thing does not exist.
It’s rather striking that in the new South Africa you don’t find anyone making a big deal about “white economic domination” or a “...
