“I’ve been singing happy birthday to Mandela for 30 years and quite frankly, I’m tired. Of course he helped a lot of people, but after that it’s all about him, him, him,” — Hugh Masekela City Press has reported how these utterances have shocked the nation, but I am not one of those purported to […]
Sentletse Diakanyo
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Transform the mind, and you transform the individual and society
I espouse such precepts that transformation of an individual is but transformation of society. Such transformation, which is in vogue among those engaged in political and economic deliberations, is becoming a distinguishing characteristic in institutions, organisations and governments seeking with unrelenting effort to reflect the multifarious societies in which they exist and represent. These are […]
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Can we trust the current ANC to lead us to the promised land?
I would in most likelihood not be amiss to suggest that we do indeed live in interesting political times; we face a future in which we may be led by man with allegations of corruption, tax evasion, racketeering and money laundering hanging over his almost deformed head. It has become unquestionably apparent that this populist […]
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What is the true measure of man?
There is a proverb that says that the best way to judge a man is not by the way he treats his equals, but by the way he treats his inferiors. If you treat your servants or employees badly, it is a poor reflection on you; that the true measure of a man is how […]
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Where have all the so-called illegal immigrants disappeared to?
It appears to be an ingrained human flaw to pronounce, devoid of any degree of knowledge, with such authority on certain matters that fiction is believed to reality. The situation across the Limpopo River in Zimbabwe is the case in point. South Africans, including some with self-interest, see themselves in some manner as experts on […]
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Can we trust the West, IMF, World Bank, etc?
According to John Perkins in his book, “Confessions of an Economic Hitman”, the United States of America, “funnels money from the World Bank, the US Agency for International Development (USAID), and other foreign ‘aid’ organisations into the coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet’s natural resources.” […]
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The root of most corruption in Africa
Africa’s history has been history of suffering and the struggle for liberation and independence. The overarching problem with Africa’s struggle for liberation and independence from colonial and imperialist rule and exploitation has been centered on political liberation, without any emphasis on economic liberation. African countries gained their independence from colonial rule many moons ago; but […]
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The politics of Mbeki vs Biko
“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 discretion, he is the sole judge of the proper means […]
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Economics – what utter rubbish!
“EVERY man is rich or poor according to the degree in which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, conveniences, and amusements of human life.” Adam Smith (1776) It would perhaps be most appropriate before I examine the uselessness and irrelevance, under certain circumstances, of the science that economics is purported to be — to […]
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The flawed nature of humans
“Judgment of our friends ought to be suspected when they are in favour of ourselves” – Rene Descartes (1659 – 1650) We are as humans, endowed with the abundance of prejudice; and which like reason is by nature equally distributed among all of us; it however manifest in varying degrees. None of us can with […]