What's on Mthoko's mind?

A lot of my former peers are in Gauteng, Cape Town & even various places overseas. This could've been me if I was more responsive to peer pressure. I truly believe one of the main reasons KZN is not on par with, at least, the Western Cape is because of the exodus of it's sportsmen, academics & intellectuals. There's almost a hidden agenda to get talent out of KZN. The equation is simple, the more educated people there are in a place, the more cultural & economic development they make. Now, when all the academics & learned people of the province are running off to other provinces, it becomes more difficult to compete economically. Uneducated people can literally have all their resources stripped away from them because they don't have the know-how to use them optimally. Uneducated people would rush off to get foreign resources even if they had the capability to obtain the same resources in their country, that is "A failure to use their minds" as ...

I remember hearing in 2012, that the Cape was planning on seceding from South Africa, this sounded frightful to me because I thought it would destabilise South Africa. I then warmed up to the idea so much that in the beginning of 2014, I began to conceptualize a South Africa separated by ethnic regions. A concept that only crystallised in my understanding of the world in mid-2015 as a path our land could go.  Descriptive map of South Africa from a Cape Independence advocacy group. Now, I've accepted the idea of a divided South Africa so much that I think it's the only way to solve a large swath of our problems. The Cape should get independence.   The South Africa that the (Western) world hoped would happen didn't happen so now the only route allies of white South Africa should champion is an independent Western Cape. I have no doubt in their ability to govern themselves & they would be a refuge for many fleeing poverty & squalor in South Africa, they are...

I, frequently, see people questioning what a state really is online when they see all these secessionist movements. What they're asking is could an African tribe large enough or tribes in an unwritten confederation be considered a state? Could the Ottoman Empire be considered a state? The answer is "Yes"  in both the above mentioned questions.  Dictionary definition of a state. Why do we need separate designated territories?    Some people even question whether we need a state & whether people can just live a stateless or global citizen  life. For this, we need to go back to early human society. Early human society in Africa probably didn't have written laws but there was most likely a leader or leaders & their delegates (i. e. an unwritten system of governance & laws). If you were to go against the wishes of the tribe or leaders of the tribe in any way, you may be expelled from the tribe & your kin or punished for your actions. Expel...