Africa’s future must necessarily lie in underpinning its moral capital with supporting and reinforcing institutions.
Ultimately, the accumulation and retention of moral capital is and should be inextricably linked to institution building.
Reputation of moral conduct determines the value of moral capital as human existence and experience has not been able to produce a mechanism that can read people’s minds.
What lies between the ears of a human beings is so complex and hidden that observation and experience are the only reliable instruments for predicting behavior.
It is impossible to rely on a person’s …

In 1995, Little Brown and Company published an autobiographical work that began as scrapes of paper buried under the floor of former President Mandela’s prison cell with the title: “Long Walk of Freedom.”
In this book, President Mandela describes his life journey.  After all, life is nothing but a journey that has to be traveled but whose true meaning is complicated by the fact that humanity has not found an answer to its impermanence.
Although we are born equal, the journey of life takes us through different addresses and each day of …

Who is to blame?  Where should we start to make it right?  Who should change in order to make Africa the kind of continent that we want to see?
We all have a lot to say about what has gone wrong in Africa and, indeed, the world.
When interrogated for solutions, it is not unnatural that we defer to other human beings in the sincere belief that someone out there owes the world and the future more than we do.
So when the late Michael Jackson (MJ) and …

The Africa Heritage Society’s Human Rights Forum on Saturday the 6th of February hosted the Co-Ministers of Home Affairs from Zimbabwe, Mr Giles Mutsekwa and Mr Kembo Mohadi at the Inanda Country Club. South Africa’s Minister of Correctional Services, Nosiviwe Maphisa-Nqakula was in attendance to welcome the guests to South Africa. The theme centred on the issues of rebuilding Zimbabwe. Prior to her current cabinet portfolio, Nosiviwe Maphisa Nqakula was the Minister of Home Affairs in South Africa.  She was instrumental in the documentation process that resulted in the legalisation …

Africa Heritage Society, and its associate institutions Africa Heritage Corporate Forum and Africa Heritage Human Rights Forum would like to thank all our valued guests for their presence and participation at the cocktail function held on the 6th of February at Inanda Club. Without your support, we wouldn’t have been able to host such a successful function. It is our hope that we all benefited from the insightful discussions.
The function was a rich zone for networking and forging new ties. The informal setting was deliberate and we are confident that …

On the 6th of February 2010, Africa Heritage Human Rights Forum (AHHRF), an initiative of members of the Africa Heritage Society (AHS) www.africa-heritage.com hosted a cocktail function around the theme of rebuilding Zimbabwe through a broadly inclusive approach. Amongst the invited guests were Zimbabwe’s Co-ministers of Home Affairs, Hon. K.Mohadi and Hon. J.Mutsekwa.
“The 6th of February has been designated by members of the Forum as Africa Heritage Zimbabwe Human Rights Day to celebrate and reflect on the critical importance of safety and security in nation building” said Mr. McKenzie Tafira, …

Africa, this is the place I call home and indeed, it is my Africa. Highly endowed with mineral resources and good weather patterns and yet despite all this, my Africa remains in poverty, my Africa is engaged in many unending conflicts, diseases, corruption and intolerance. Is this the Africa that I want? My answer is a bold NO.
I have seen it in my dreams, I have seen it in my vision. There is a better Africa, a place we will all call home regardless of race, tribe, colour, nationality. I …

We all want to be rich and free.
Human civilization has never prepared us to understand the complexity of life and what one needs to do to escape from poverty.
What is poverty?  Poverty can be described as the condition of not having the means to afford basic human needs such as health care, nutrition, clean water, clothing and shelter.  One can also talk of relative poverty which refers to the condition of having fewer resources or less income than others within a society or country or compared to worldwide averages.
Why are …