Hindsight: A good story to tell, a promise to take up arms and nothing to offer

The problem of the blues, the Democratic Alliance, is that while their ideology of equal opportunity for all and abolishment of cronyism is sound they cannot wish away the fact that in order to have an outright win of the black hearts and minds and eventually, votes come 3 August, they will have to be committed to the cause of continuing to lift black people out of poverty.… Read More Hindsight: A good story to tell, a promise to take up arms and nothing to offer

29 April, 201608 May, 2016 Mmutle Arthur Kgokong/Intraparadox

Hindsight: Of Big Bosses and Minions

As South African political parties diverge in different directions this weekend across our country to launch their political manifestoes sandwiched with promises and posturing ahead of the oncoming local government elections on 3 August 2016 an uneasiness pervades the employees of the City of Tshwane and their families who have been renting apartments and… Read More Hindsight: Of Big Bosses and Minions

15 April, 201606 May, 2016 Mmutle Arthur Kgokong/Intraparadox

#theWriterlyBugJuice(v)31/03/16-The Shadow of the big boss

Critical distance affords those who watch unfolding events from a distance a vantage viewpoint. For the actors in the unfolded events only in hindsight can they make sense of the nexus of those events. We were not actually sure but it was there, like a hunch that everybody feels at the same time but… Read More #theWriterlyBugJuice(v)31/03/16-The Shadow of the big boss

01 April, 201606 April, 2016 Mmutle Arthur Kgokong/Intraparadox

Today in South Africa there is a known fear that is slowly creeping back into our consciousness or perhaps should we say hatred for the ‘other’ for that matter. The powers that be has appealed to the masses that they must harness the positive energy from the remnants of the effects of the FIFA 2010 World Cup in each other to instill a feeling of African Unity, camaraderie and sharewood.
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14 July, 201028 May, 2015 Mmutle Arthur Kgokong/Intraparadox

The Rainbow Nation: The Neglected Discourse

Relationships have their nourishment entrenched in communication. Without communication, even with ourselves, from an individual perspective, there exists no growth. We can see this everyday when we wake up to tackle the world. We are in constant communication with who we are as we battle with the forces of destiny to attain the goals we… Read More The Rainbow Nation: The Neglected Discourse

20 May, 201028 April, 2018 Mmutle Arthur Kgokong/Intraparadox1 Comment

Relocating the Rainbow Nation

Dialogue, undoubtedly, it is the key towards molding our entity as a society, as a nation into a working homogenous unit that can continue to lead the way for nations struggling with plurality in the continent and abroad. … Read More Relocating the Rainbow Nation

27 April, 201026 September, 2023 Mmutle Arthur Kgokong/Intraparadox

Inter Space

Assaults, maltreatment, rape and murders in South African farms either those of workers or farmers themselves is as real as daylight in daylight. These are atrocities of a silent war that has ensued way after the birth of the Rainbow Nirvana and had been in existence way before. Go through the work of Henry Nxumalo and you will trace just how far it goes.… Read More Inter Space

12 April, 201028 May, 2015 Mmutle Arthur Kgokong/Intraparadox

Tremor 3.4

The death of Terre’Blanche is playing out against an unpleasant political landscape under the ruling Center. Will the Center hold it all together when we begin to see retaliation? Any sane person should not underestimate the potentiality of revenge when a central figure to a movement is eliminated. Unfortunately this could proof difficult at a time whereby there has been a revival of a struggle song that, in the context of the New South Africa, promotes racial division and hatred.… Read More Tremor 3.4

04 April, 201020 December, 2023 Mmutle Arthur Kgokong/Intraparadox