Published in the Sunday Times, 08 March 2026South Africa’s political landscape has long been shaped by the African National Congress (ANC), a movement deeply woven into the democratic project that emerged in 1994. Today, however, the ANC stands at a critical juncture. Its authority, once grounded in collective discipline and [...]
The Limpopo and Eastern Cape votes at the 2027 ANC National Elective Conference will be decisive about who becomes ANC President. In fact, the old Transvaal ANC is strongly emerging as the new kingmaker. Kwa-Zulu Natal has lost its luckstre, Gauteng is diffused into the old Transvaal forces, and all [...]
The Democratic Alliance has made Black Economic Empowerment an election issue. It has put the government's BEE policy at the centre of its campaign message. This matter has morphed to a level where it is now defining the empowerment of Black people as a strategic existential issue for the DA [...]
When the evidence leader and the commissioners at the Madlanga Commission began delayering Sergeant Nkosi’s testimony, it became clear that the depth of capture was extensive. In the language often associated with the late Minister Pravin Gordhan, the Nkosi testimony offers critical insight into systemic corruption, making it highly relevant [...]
The civilised and democratic World experienced how arbitrary and prerogative decisions by politicians have plunged humanity into one of the most devastating wars, the Second World War. Using gaps in the legal provisions of the then constitutional order in Germany, Adolf Hitler went about unleashing one of the most tyrannical [...]
In December 2027, South Africa will confirm who will be the ANC's candidate for the presidency, potentially the country’s chief jockey. Despite the race not being officially open, the main horses are on the racetrack, recording serious qualification times, distances, and weights. It is indisputable that the Deputy President, [...]
South Africa is in the process of reviewing its local government system. The process is about reviewing the White Paper on Local Government. This is a document that made policy assumptions from which the 'Big Five' local government legislations were enacted: the Municipal Structures Act, the Municipal Systems Act, the [...]
These were the loudest words said to one of South Africa's billionaires, Patrice Motsepe, at the African National Congress's National General Council in Birchwood. Patrice Motsepe was 'recognisably standing' in the 'front row' as the ANC's Secretary General, Fikile Mbalula, was also 'standing' and courting the 'attention' of delegates, some [...]
In the absence of a seamless ANC leadership succession plan, and with a vicious battle to take over at all levels, the entry of anyone with formidable credentials is bound to cause a stir. Beyond the Tambo-to-Mandela-to-Mbeki succession transition, the ANC has never had an open discourse on the type or [...]
The digital revolution was sold to us as the great emancipation of knowledge: a technological uprising against distance, scarcity and the old gatekeepers of information. Social media and digital platforms were celebrated as instruments through which humanity would democratise access to ideas. Yet the revolution carried a naïve assumption—that the [...]
