The year 2024 will find the South African voter and the country's Establishment with hard to make political decisions than it had been at any time since 1993, after the assassination of Chris Hani. We would be in the middle of the fiercest youth impatience with a [...]

      Few societies, and those that did, it was after a rebellion or similar, have been able to rise above the imagination of those that lead them. In the same vein, the habits or lifestyles of leaders become the values of those they lead and, by extension, society. To [...]

        The interesting thing about post-conflict liberation is that although everyone agrees there should be the transformation of power relations in every aspect of society, very few, including those who take charge of power, decide on what should be transformed and to what end. What the struggle or [...]

         In his inaugural speech as the 9th King of the Zulus, King MisuZulu Ka Zwelithini spoke of the renewal, rebuilding, and unity of 'Isizwe sa MaZulu'. The platitudes in his speech were codes. Only those interior to the actual issues surrounding the contestation for the throne would have [...]

      As we exit the winter of having lost several Comrades to the pernicious hand of the COVID19 pandemic, it is difficult to accept the reality of death as just but normality in humanity without blame. Despite our knowledge that at birth, we began the race to our mortal [...]

        South Africa's liberation movement-dominated politics are entering a new phase, and politicians as practitioners, intellectuals, and voting citizens are pontificating about the future. The end of politics to liberate the people, the occupation of the political center stage by interests-driven politicians, the 'transactional character' of party politics, [...]