Comrades, it is true that local government concerns water coming out of taps, lights switching on, municipal roads without potholes, sewerage not flowing on street pavements, and several other basic amenities, including our graves functioning properly. Through local government, society has a direct experience of what government, the state, or [...]
The political discourse in South Africa is about to be recharged, a festival of ideas is looming. After the dormant birth of the National Dialogue, which would have infused the political schedule with diverse content, the ANC published in its influential journal, Umrabulo, a Base Discussion Document for its December [...]
The consistent policy statements by Gauteng Premiers, starting with the inaugural one, Tokyo Sexwale, underscore a pressing need to review the provincial government’s powers. At the first meeting of the President’s Coordination Committee, an intergovernmental forum comprising the President and Premiers, in 1994, Premier Tokyo Sexwale publicly called for his [...]
The Republic of South Africa’s judicial authority is vested in the courts. The judiciary is not only a separate authority but an independent one in character. It is accountable to the Constitution and the laws that emanate from it. It facilitates the adjudication of disputes within a rule-of-law context. The [...]
Local government is the last line of democracy. As South Africa prepares for 2026 local government elections, many speculate how these will define the consequential 2029 National Elections. Service delivery dysfunctions, public representatives behaviour, and overall performance of the economy has stirred anger and indifference at almost all municipal wards. There [...]
There are questions that South Africans find difficult to answer about their politics. The most crucial question is whether the country has arrived at a post-ANC governing party state. South Africa’s constitutional order is paraded, legitimately so, as one of the best in the world. As an order, it has [...]
Thus far, the chief purpose of a liberation struggle has been to free those on whose behalf it is waged. Now that this has been an elusive end in many ways for post-colonial states, from now on, the chief purpose of those living in post-liberation democracies should be to re-liberate [...]
When two former ANCYL presidents, with a combined experience of over 60 person-years as national leaders, call for the NEC, of which they are members, to resign, it is a seismic event. This signifies a monumental shift within the NEC, which we might see the full extent of at the [...]
The increasing dysfunctions, the collapse of public infrastructure in most parts of Johannesburg CBD, and the erosion of lawfulness as a civic responsibility in South Africa’s economic capital demand a political response. Leadership is identified as the most crucial factor in revitalising the city. It requires a leader who can [...]
This was published in TimesLive on 08 August 2025The poet Khalil Gibran writes, "Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they belong with you, they belong not to you". This [...]
