Sandile Memela

I find that far too many people crave social attention and desire praise for any little thing they do. This is a serious problem that perhaps reveals deep-seated feelings of inferiority and self-doubt. It has bred a culture of sucking up where people go out of their way to please or gain the approval of […]

Some of our campuses are on fire with predominantly black students running amok, again. The deep rumbles of discontent on these campuses like the Tshwane University of Technology, for instance, can easily be mistaken for a yearning for access to education and training, if you like. As much as this government is committed to opening […]

I never believed Sonono Khoza. Not because I thought that she deliberately lied about having sexual relations with President Jacob Zuma or because the issue of sleeping with a married man, especially a president, is trivial. I did not believe her because she seemed to be denying the obvious to the wrong people, at the […]

It has been reported that 1.1 million little boys and girls enrolled for Grade 1 throughout the country this year. These beautiful ones who were born into a free and democratic society may be likened to a garden of what South Africa will look like in 2022. These are the little boys and girls who will […]

Now that we know that 230 000 African matric students failed last year, we can sit down to have a decent conversation about what is wrong with them. The fact that it is white and so-called Indian students who achieved straight As has serious implications for the leadership of this country in the next 10 years […]

“Well, this is what is at the heart of European and African conflict in our society today,” says the guide, Thuli K, who is in charge of a historical tour. We are at the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria. Richard P and I have undertaken this strange journey together to get closer to the soul of […]

The last ten years have been marked by a strange phenomenon in black writing: a visible and negative literary portrayal of the black experience and critical assault on black identity and achievement. This is quite ironic. But black writers have, unwittingly, become enemies of everything that their people fought for. Instead, their allegiance overlooks the […]

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 number of people, especially in the African community, who have made it in […]