Tag: ideology

The Nazis may have lost the battle. But the war is just beginning. Summer, 2025. A US senator burns to death in his Washington townhouse. Masked gunmen massacre supporters during a football match in Berlin. Meanwhile, an old man is murdered while he sleeps in the dementia ward of a German hospital. These three seemingly unconnected events mark the first steps in a terrifying countdown to apocalypse.

Gatsha Buthelezi: Chief with a Double Agenda was first published in London in 1988. However, it was made unavailable in South Africa due to litigation threats by Mangosuthu Buthelezi. Gatsha Buthelezi operated from within the apartheid system of the South African government.

Austerity does not need to mean suffering. Cutting public spending is urgent to address South Africa’s growing debt. Delaying cuts will only worsen debt and interest payments, making future cuts more severe. Reducing spending needn’t harm South Africans, as many wasteful expenses can be removed. In 2023, the Democratic Alliance (DA) estimated that the African National Congress (ANC)-led departments wasted around R40 billion in 2022/23 alone.

The concept of a crisis and how to manage it isn’t foreign to anyone running a business. Something untoward happens, it affects the business and then there are a host of effects ranging from revenue loss, reputation management and compliance questions.

Multidisciplinary scholars showcase their search for decolonial strategies from within their disciplinary focus, covering ideas such as the different layers at which colonialism operates, strategies for a decolonisation that does not recolonise, and the importance of preserving and publishing in indigenous languages.

The African National Congress (ANC) is imploding. The productive energies of private enterprise have long been suppressed under the party’s hegemonic rule. Policy uncertainty, and simply bad policy, has kept South Africa back from fulfilling its full economic potential.

Our reality is that our realities are unfixable in the short term as ideologies only change when supporters die of old age or in a revolution.