Fiat Lux
August 4 2016 South Africans went to the ballot box this past week to elect local councilors in what was described as a hotly contested election presenting the ruling African National Congress (ANC) with its stiffest challenge since the end of Apartheid. Indeed, early trends in the tallying of the votes indicated that the ruling party was struggling in places like Gauteng as the Democratic Alliance (DA) looked like a…
July 30 2015 – There is so much ado about the killing of a Cecil in Zimbabwe that it makes you wonder. No, it’s not about Cecil Rhodes, the imperialist marauder who came, saw and raped a subcontinent in the nineteenth century. It’s about a lion – Cecil the Lion – that was killed by an American dentist with a hobby of trophy hunting. According to reports, Dr Walter Harper,…...
September 1 2016 We now find respite to pause on the verge of a plunge, and ponder just what might have been. Or, imagine just might be after the pause ends and the perilous race to the abyss resumes. We have had a shrill shouting match between the authorities – President John Magufuli, his assistants, the Police – and the main opposition Chadema party on whether the latter could go…...
It’s official, it is not working, it just isn’t. It is this election thing that I’m talking about. It clearly is not working for us at all though, like the proverbial madman, we keep repeating the same thing the same way every day, expecting different results. Whomsoever introduced elections to Africans was either ill-informed about our fundamental philosophical infrastructure or ill-intentioned and wishing us to be stuck forever in a…...