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Do you believe Khwezi?

This question has gotten politicians tripping themselves with both disappointing and underwhelming responses, further revealing lack of understanding of extent of the problem outside the legal framework, or lack of guts to be blunt about the issue. There’s an argument that this is an unfair question given that the president was acquitted of the rape charge. The legal outcome doesn’t take away people’s right to still have opinions, so many people entangle themselves by attempting to give a legal answer when they should be giving their own take on the issue beyond the legal verdict. Rape is not a legal issue but a societal problem and we should continue to talk about it in our pursuit for solutions. The context of the question is not confined to Khwezi’s case but digs into the rape culture in our society. There are glaring gaps within our legal framework that cannot be ignored and it’s through these debates our legal system can be improved to administer just
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Fronting is a war against transformation

Our transformation progress so far can be credited to regulations. Without enforceable regulations we would be nowhere, and for this reason, I can’t help but be suspicious each time there’s a BEE appointment. My suspicion is further fuelled by how loose some of these BEE regulations are. Regulations are necessary when you lack ownership. If black people owned large businesses we wouldn’t require many BEE regulations. Because of lack of ownership our transformation focus is more on job opportunities. The job opportunities focus at white-owned companies should be a temporary solution to be phased out with black industrialisation, but in our country temporary solutions usually last a lifetime. Here’s my suspicion with BEE appointees. If you are appointing someone you wouldn’t without regulations, it means you need to carefully select a candidate that won’t practically fulfill the intended mandate of the regulation. It should be someone controllable who will still toe the compa
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No Courts, No Commissions of Enquiry- No Action

Our courts have recently been accused of judicial overreach and extensive involvement in political matters. In their defence, they get involve only when they get involved. They preside only over cases reported to them and make rulings based on information presented in court. We have gotten used to being led by our courts and commissions of enquiry. Even our president has hinted a couple of times in parliament that he can’t take action on some of the issues pending the court process. The question is how do we always end up in court and establishing commissions of enquiry? Such a scenario occurs in the absence of leadership. According to our leaders, if the court hasn’t ruled on it then there’s no evidence to take action. We spent years talking about Nkandla and nothing was done about it until it was reported to the Public Protector. The Gupta saga has been going on long before the State of Capture Report. The SASSA crisis was known long before it’s second court appearance, af
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