When the ANC meets to finalize its go-to-voters message for the 2024 national and provincial elections, the nation will be waiting with the question, 'what will the massage be this time? Polls and surveys indicate a population ready to face the upcoming elections with a resolve to make them yield [...]
A country’s constitution reflects society's emotion about its past and a projection into a future the drafters knew they might not be part of its zenith benefits. This defines the leadership cohort that negotiated the South African Constitution. Their never-again emotion that went into the final text is algorithmic to [...]
As South Africa approaches the 2024 national elections, political tensions are roiling and fomenting instability. Anxious thinkers and business leaders wonder if the two biggest political parties should wait to find common ground and advance South Africa towards a more stable political order. In enduring the realities of inequality, the [...]
The election of President Ramaphosa will be remembered for having led the inclusion of a younger generation of ANC leaders at the centre of the liberation movement’s decision-making structures whilst at the same time being the one who started the domino for the downward spiral of its youth league. Visibly, [...]
For up to ninety-five or so years, the African National Congress has dominated the hegemonic space of what ought to have been the correct arrangements with which the South African society should have long agreed to govern itself. Through its monumental documents, The African Claims, the 1949 Congress League Program [...]
One of the most preventable decisions that have plunged the country into a disaster is the introduction of independent power producers and how the country transitions to that future. While in climate change standards, the decision might have been one of the best, in how it impacts the livelihoods of [...]
Between 1985 and 1989, South Africa was dealing with the reality of having to enter into a political settlement between the governing National Party and the ANC as the then undisputed leader of the global anti-apartheid alliance anchored on the continuous delegitimisation of the State as the trusted custodian [...]
Vectors that will define the upcoming national elections will undoubtedly be energy security, a job-creating growing economy, and a functioning criminal justice system. The 2023 SONA will have failed to grasp the true feelings of society and emergencies in South Africa if it does not address what proposals will [...]
1. Your main assertion is that voter support for the ANC has been in decline, and what you describe as the national opposition complex is at the forefront of the challenge of removing the ANC from its position as a trusted servant with a mandate to serve, lead and govern [...]
South Africa is undergoing a stressful period of load shedding and its attendant down-the-line failings, primarily how it is disrupting electricity-dependent industry sectors. The implications of these disruptions and other public infrastructure failings are redefining how voters will henceforth understand the importance of their voting power. There is, therefore, [...]
