UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE BIKO INQUEST: AN INTERROGATION OF THE DECIMATION OF OUR MORAL CONSCIENCE AND THE DEARTH OF MEANINGFUL POLITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS
September month in South Africa is Black Consciousness month. It is in this month that we reflect on the life and death of the giant of our struggle for liberation and an icon of the Black Consciousness Movement, Stephen Bantu Biko. Steve Biko gained world renown when he died in police custody at the hands […]
CONSTITUTION UNCONSTITUTIONAL: A CRITIQUE OF SOUTH AFRICA’S 1996 CONSTITUTIONAL DISPENSATION
The 8th May marked 30 years since South Africa adopted a new constitutional dispensation in 1996 under a democratic order. The constitution is not just a symbolic document. It is the supreme law and the foundation upon which our constitutional democracy rests. Its importance cannot be over emphasised given the country’s history of divisions stemming […]
BANTUSTANISM 2.0 AND THE RUINS OF A FAILED NATIONAL BOURGEOUIS STATE
After three decades of experimentation with a bourgeois democracy, it is as clear as daylight that our country is in free fall. We have been hobbling from crisis to crisis with no real solution on the horizon. Except for the first decade when we were still wallowing in the euphoria of democracy, the post-colonial polity […]