Opinion

It will make no difference if Ramaphosa should go now; he never was an asset to good governance and development. Ramaphosa was a loyal ANC cadre, nothing more, and nothing less. Like all ANC cadres, his real purpose was self-enrichment, for him, his friends and family. In this, he succeeded.

The ANC is a mafia-type Firm, with the oligarchy inner-circle exercising power, and monopolizing wealth.

The United States is going to sanction SA. If you have information to the opposite, please share it with us. Its the ANC comrades that were begging for it, for many years. And it's going to get worse. The ANC will continue to destroy the country.

In South Africa, the new dominant paradigm of "transformation" was nothing else than a slogan to justify the transfer of existing assets from White to Black, and to stole everything with any real or imageable value. The lasting legacy of revolutionary gains in SA were destruction.

The populist icons of South African politics have enormous egos; all believing that they are greater than the Ideas they are proposing. Some actually are; some not. However, none of them are bigger than perception.

Dit is nou-al jare lank wat ek in stilte luister na kommentators se aanmerkings oor die “briljantheid” van Jacob Zuma. Verdere uitbreidings op die tema sluit in “wiley old chessplayers”, “strategies briljant” en meer genuanseerde uitbreidings op hierdie sê-goed. Die ander dag het ek selfs vir Pieter Groenewald hoor aanmerkings maak oor Zuma se briljantheid as ʼn politikus. Ek is jammer, maar ek kan dit nie sien nie.

The Leaders of Our People, the only Society that matters, are already busy extending BBBEE rules to all sectors of the economy. The Expropriation Without Compensation Act has been based. Not long, and the racists land thieves will be kicked off the land of our ancestors – and I will be a farm owner. As a beneficiary of the Redress Laws, I will extend my brilliant and innovative business practices to the private sector.

Whatever the Madlanga Commission may come up, it will not surprise me. I know it is going on, without knowing the particulars. It is going on everywhere in the country. And it is not going to stop. There is no will, or intention, to stop it. The Commission, like the Zondo Commission, will publish its findings, there will be a lot of promises about consequences (probably, knowing this government and its modus operandi, an “action plan”). Probably there will be a commission ...

Nelson Mandela is not an ideal or hero of mine. In general, I don’t like the idea of having “heroes”. What does that mean, the concept of a “hero”; that I surrender my being to the admiration I feel for another person? I don’t have heroes. There are selective personality traits, accomplishments, or behaviour in specific contexts I appreciate from certain people. For instance, I appreciate Genghis Khan’s brilliance as a military leader, and Gandi’s ability to preach non-violen

Ek is deel van die Afrikanergemeenskap in Suid-Afrika. Wanneer ek kommentaar lewer op die politiek, is my vertrekpunt altyd dat my kriterium vir (veral subjektiewe) beoordeling is dat die rasse- diskriminasie in my geboorteland teen my moet einde kry.

SETAs, SAQA, accreditation, NSFAS. The South African educational system has created bags full of money that have became cesspools of corruption and looting, while competencies and skills have deteriorated into the gutters.

My problem with the current academic model is that there is seemingly very little relationship between effort and result. Academics’ performance is not assessed in terms of their ability to get students (learners) ready for the world of work. In the model that QS World University Rankings use to rank universities, only 10% of the assessment weight is allocated to reputation among prospective employers.

For the South African government, SOEs are the golden keys that bind together the state and the ideology of the developmental state; SOEs must actively intervene in the country’s economy to achieve economic development.

What’s going on with Ramaphosa and Donald Trump’s behaviour towards South Africa? Why is the delegation Ramaphosa has promises to send to the United States to “provide accurate information” about the expropriation act and race laws of the country not getting off the ground?

The system of integrated development planning is too complicated, too dependent on sophisticated data collection and integration methodologies, to be useful in a country with South Africa’s development status. Officials, councillors and (less of all) communities do not properly understand it, and supervisory spheres of government (both provincial, as well as national) use it to pile on bureaucratic requirements that have eventually turned IDPs into volumes of unimplementable