Dale T. McKinley

He advanced to the council-table:
and, "Please your honours," said he,
"I'm able, by means of a secret charm,
to draw all creatures living beneath the sun,
that creep, or swim, or fly, or run,
after me so as you never saw!
and I chiefly use my charm

This week legal papers are set to be filed in the Constitutional Court seeking an order to compel President Zuma to appoint a Commission of Inquiry into ‘allegations of corruption and mismanagement’ covering both the Badplaas area and the Mpumalanga Province as a whole.

It wasn’t that long ago, just after the 1994 elections to be precise, when it seemed almost every other South African wanted to become a public servant.

If there is one thing that the ruling ANC and the government it runs hates more than anything else it is the charge that they are increasingly acting like the old National Party and its apartheid state; more specifically, that they are rapidly embracing the very securitisation of the state that t

The ANC might be about to turn 100 years old but when it comes to its contemporary politics, the last four years seems like a lifetime of its own.

I have no doubt that there are many people (besides myself) who have temporarily entertained the thought of publicly expressing their opposition to the marriage of certain acquaintances/friends/family members at that point in those ceremonies when the officiator asks if there is ‘anyone who has r

Most of us can surely well remember those times during childhood when we were caught eating something that we knew we shouldn’t and our immediate defence was to claim that mom or dad said we could.

Amid all the usual political propaganda and grandstanding at the African National Congress 99th anniversary rally in Polokwane on 8 January 2011, it was none other than ANC Youth League (ANCYL) president Julius Malema who came up with the most honest statement of the day.

I am not sure whether the word ‘polipreneurship’ has ever been part of our political lexicon but I do know that what it represents has been with us for some time now, not just in South Africa, but globally.

In our age of dumbed-down sound-bites passing for informed commentary and information, a corporate monopolised media that has no more than a passing and sensationalised interest in the lives and struggles of the majority of humanity, and a dominant political culture marked by insatiable greed and