Public Administration and public administration are about the management of state resources for the benefit of reigning policies as crafted by society through its arrangements on how to rule itself. P/public A/administration is thus meaningless unless it is based on the philosophical foundations through which society imagines its long-term sustainability. The various (South) African 'democratic experiments' have all been designed to advance the interests of 'conquerors' also called victors, generally to the disadvantage of the 'conquered'. The sub-texts of transformation, reform and revolution have toned the policy environment within which post-colonial and/ or post-liberation P/public A/administration has been theorised and practised. The axiomatic point of departure of this article is that the colonial construct of the (South) African state required a P/public A/administration system of the coloniser in Sout