Wandile Mhlengi Ngcaweni

Wandile Mhlengi Ngcaweni is a South African political economy researcher, author, and co-editor of We Are No Longer at Ease: The Struggle for #FeesMustFall.https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/author/wandilemhlengingcaweni/?hl=en-US Quotes Almost every leadership crisis of the ANC has been caused by rigid old men, who do not want to be told what the right thing to do is, leaders who fail to gauge the changing direction of where the wind is blowing in terms of ideas, the mood of the constituency and their basic and material needs.https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2017-04-13-the-intellectual-militant-revolutionary-and-brave-young-people-need-to-stand-up-and-take-back-the-anc/?hl=en-US#:~:text=Almost%20every%20leadership%20crisis%20of%20the%20ANC,at%20the%20Mapungubwe%20Institute%20for%20Strategic%20Reflection. Mature revolutionary consciousness is an important quality to possess in leadership because it enables a leader to do what is right for the country... The thing about strong, relevant youth leaders is that they do not compromise their conscience and morality.https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2017-04-13-the-intellectual-militant-revolutionary-and-brave-young-people-need-to-stand-up-and-take-back-the-anc/?hl=en-US#:~:text=Mature%20revolutionary%20consciousness%20is%20an%20important%20quality,expense%20of%20their%20constituencies%20on%20the%20ground. The democratic dispensation did little to confront the traumatic legacies of colonial-apartheid. It presupposed that service delivery would be therapeutic enough to heal deep wounds of multiple traumas.https://indlulamithi.org.za/2018/10/23/trauma-and-unhealed-scars-of-south-africa-by-wandile-ngcaweni/?hl=en-US#:~:text=For%20many%20young%20people%2C%20the%20past%20is,and%20threatens%20efforts%20to%20build%20national%20unity. For many young people, the past is the present and can never be forgotten until fully addressed. How then can we have a socially cohesive society when we continue to ignore issues of redress that have socio-economic, psycho-physical well-being implications?https://medium.com/@Wandi_N/pretoria-high-school-for-girls-black-girls-lead-ab77ec830915?hl=en-US#:~:text=Written%20by%20Wandile%20Ngcaweni%20%C2%B7%205%20followers.,find%20new%20solutions%20and%20generate%20fresh%20ideas. In the face of life-threatening poverty upon Black and poor citizens, while comrades steal and those who are known to have stolen from the poor are not facing the might of the law... South Africa is yours! This might be our last chance to make South Africa truly belong to all who live in it. The only time I will proudly call myself a 'Jeppe Old-Boy', is when black pupils' complex existence is recognised, the day a black person can walk through the gates of all High Schools, Private or Public, and not feel like an others. References