The Weekly Edtorial
For far too long, we have watched as a province the cost of inadequate or lack of education over one’s lifetime running into millions of rands in lost wages, increased entitlements and criminal justice spending. And not only has poor education cost us jobs and growth, above all, the dreams and aspirations of too many young people ignored by an economy increasingly built on knowledge –not hands — have been shattered. What exacerbates the whole miserable scenario is the reality that most of those young people do not merely choose to drop out of school or not to proceed to…
Africa must reject US-led post-colonial slavery
In 2010, South Africa, an African country, hosted one of the most spectacular tournaments the world has ever witnessed. Writing a review of the soccer spectacle, Owen Gibson, chief sports correspondent of UK’s award-winning The Guardian says; “South Africa leaves a World Cup legacy to remember. The crime and crumbling stadiums that doom-mongers warned of failed to materialise.” Gibson went further to write; “By the end of the group stages, the FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke felt secure enough to joke that South Africa had been so successful that it would become “plan B” for all future tournaments”. This was…
Africa: A dream shattered
As we celebrate this month as Africa month, one question that boggles my mind is; what is there to celebrate? Post-colonial Africa has become synonymous with disease, war and hunger. Ethiopia is the only African country that survived colonisation after it fought hard to thwart Italy’s imperialistic advances. In 1963, 32 independent African states converged in Addis Ababa to witness the establishment of Organisation of African Unity (OAU) which was disbanded in 2002 in favour of African Union (AU). Incidentally, Thabo Mbeki was the last OAU chairperson and first AU chairperson. Amongst a plethora of AU’s objectives I have chosen…
