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The Example of the First African Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
My grandfather’s name meant ‘Coolie,’ and his mother was ‘Nomoba’ meaning Mother of sugar cane. His English name was Henry. (He is standing on the right). The names ‘Mkula’ or ‘Nomakula’ were once as common as ‘Boytjie’ or ‘Ouma’ and were always given in honour of someone. In my grandfather’s case, my late grandmother once told me, his name, Mkula, was in honour of the Indian doctor who’d…
Peace Tourism: The Hidden Industry of Diplomacy
Peace negotiations are usually judged by treaties and headlines, but there is another dimension we rarely measure: the economic value of peace itself. When countries choose negotiation instead of confrontation, they create a quiet but significant industry — peace tourism. South Africa offers the plenty venues for diplomats of different countries to find one another in tranquility Oman gives a…
Peace is Like Sex
Peacemaking is messy business and it is best negotiated behind closed doors, where large egos can be massaged quietly away from the scornful eye of the merchants of death. The central argument of our book, “Peace is Like Sex,” is that Africa is on an extraordinary path to unimaginable success. This seemingly bottomless rot, knee-breaking hills of scandals, insurmountable levels of crime,…
Find Your Superpowers
Generally, my books have angered people before, and the one that I will present tomorrow has been rejected by several publishers, they say it’s too inflammatory. When I was a stand-in for Redi Tlhabi, we were reported to the BBCSA. And we won, because, trust me, I’ve always stayed within boundaries of decency, never punched down, but I call B.S. when I smell it, after-all the air is fresher in a…
Palestine. The Opium of the Intellectuals
Palestine is the opium of the intellectuals. The mere mention of the word makes them delirious, and the blacker the intellectual, the greater the delirium. Palestine is to their brain what melanin is to the skin. Palestine is not only a geographic place in the Middle East, but clearly a muti too, a cheap fix that numbs them from the problems at home. In his Address at International Day of…
How Safe are MTN Workers if Iran and Israel go to war again?
The answer is, “In mortal danger.”Scenario Planning has a grim history. Herman Kahn from Rand Corporation sought to know how many coffins would America need in the event of a nuclear war with the USSR. Scenarios made it clear that peace was cheaper than nuclear Armageddon.Pierre Wack, an executive from Shell learnt from Kahn and popularised Scenario Planning after his company catapulted past its…
Goodness
A gentleman I’ve respected since we were both students, Rev. Joseph Tau, recently reminded me of Shakespeare’s line: “The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones.” With women, it can be harsher still. Too often, memory settles on the trivial — a habit, a quirk — while substance quietly slips away.That is what struck me when I read how newspapers chose to…
Why You Should Thank Winnie Mandela.
Today 11 February 1990, Nelson and Winnie Mandela walked out of Victor Verster Prison hand in hand. Mandela was a free man. Adele was the wife of the only lawyer in town, Pieter, who was a friend of the then minister of justice, Kobie Coetsee. Pieter and Kobie had been friends since varsity, and they still played tennis together. The story of Mandela’s release starts in a small town called…
Saints and Sinners Wanted
President Jacob Zuma, with all his faults played a few crucial roles in peacemaking, particularly in ending apartheid as well as in ending the violence between the ANC and Inkatha in the Natal Midlands in the 1990s. My first question to him in our interview was, “What did your mother say when you got arrested?” A question like that, I’ve found, removes all the bravado and makes us human. Wars…
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It's Time Brave Leadership, Again
South Africa is always at her best when she has brave and visionary leadership. Men and women who recognised the jaws of danger at their feet, stared down the risk of injury to their reputations and never buckled under threat of death. In this picture is Oom Willie Esterhuyse, who was a philosophy professor at Stellenbosch University with President Thabo Mbeki. Oom Willie was sent by Dr Niel…
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Why You Won't Get A Front Row Seat in Heaven
It is on days like these that I miss my friend, Shaun Johnson, and I lament not only his untimely passing, but that good newspapers died with his generation of editors. Now we are stuck with remnants that can neither be used to wrap fish and chips, because our health regulators say that isn’t good for us, nor can they be used in the toilet because due to endless cost cutting, the sewage pipes…
Long Pants vs Shorts
I don’t know on whose side of the fence I stand on the issue of short pants, on Mandela’s side or Sobukwe’s side. When Mandela got arrested, he flatly refused to wear shorts in prison, saying he was a man and not a boy. “I informed the authorities that I would under no circumstances wear shorts and told them I was prepared to go to court to protest.” The warder, Colonel Jacobs, came up with a…
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The Staircase of Life
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When days are dark, good friends are many.
It’s my birthday today, I’m 55, and I’m glad that the month of 3 deaths is coming to an end. They all passed away in one week. Brother and Mawe within 24 hours of each other, and Cousin, while we were editing Mawe’s obituary.The messages of condolence were pretty overwhelming. It was like being fed endless dessert. I wanted to say, “Enough now!”But they kept coming.The worst message, I found,…
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Hope is our only exit
Hope is our only exit
At ten in the morning the line into the liquor store was already snaking around the building. Ordinarily that would discourage anyone, but instead it grew longer as young mothers and fathers kept walking out with cases and cases of booze. This is the life in South Africa, those who can afford are leaving the country but many of those who cannot, are leaving the country mentally, at least. They…
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The Fulfilled Promise
The disastrous political events in South Africa today, have not come as a surprise, therefore, there is no reason for alarm or despair. The good news is that South Africans have an indomitable spirit that never succumbs to adversity. We have in this country, a highly motivated and capable civil service — although it has often been bullied by politicians; We have good doctors, nurses, teachers,…
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How to Find Happiness
How can I love my neighbour if I don’t love myself? How can I love my community if I don’t love where I live? And how can I love my country if I don’t love my fellow citizens? Too many of us are made to feel inadequate and a deluge of excuses is invented to make us feel that way. Just remember, you too were created in God’s image. Think of Jesus Christ, conceived by the Holy Spirit, and born of…
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