Few policy issues have attracted more attention in an ANC Presidential term than the challenge of protecting the post-1994 gains, as in a Ramaphosa term. The African National Congress has, and through struggle and sacrifice, sponsored the idea of freedom for the majority of South Africans, most of whom are Black, [...]

    The governing African National Congress refers to the 1994 political settlement as a 'democratic breakthrough' rather than a year of liberation. In government as a governing party they celebrate 27 April as Freedom Day. Such is the depth of uncertainty on the meaning of South Africa's political settlement to [...]

    It is no longer difficult to understand why society seems to have started dreaming of a future without the ANC as a governing party. As unemployment figures grow, crime and criminality are rewarded, public infrastructure is collapsing, disposable income is raided by fuel increases and their attendant inflationary [...]

   The South African liberation movement complex, historically led by the African National Congress (ANC), and the opposition complex which is clearly bankrolled by the economic establishment of South Africa anchored by an extractive capitalist class committed to protecting current privileges bequeathed to them by a history of dispossession, are [...]

      Our cultural fragility as a people will always be a function of whether it is built and/or based entirely on the memories of the elders whose eldership we embrace. When our tradition and humanity becomes our source of security and our being refuses to go the way of [...]

    For decades now, the world and humanity have known democracy not only in the Lincolnian parlance of ‘government of the people by the people for the people' but also as a construct whose optimal operation occurs when the government is constituted by those that garnered the most votes in [...]

    The 2021 Municipal Elections have evoked all sorts of emotions, commentaries, analyses, and theories about the future of the ANC as a governing party. Ramaphosa in the process come out as one of the coolest of ANC Politicians. He wrapped his electioneering season by accepting a free and fair [...]

   "Petropolitics is not the game of the faint hearted."The political economy of energy and OPEC is guarded jealously. It is fraught with dynamics that make it the subject of the rich and privileged.We have recently witnessed how, in the heat of global discussions and fight for dominance, members of [...]

   In answering this question, South Africans should make honesty about what the country is going through, the context of all contexts. To avert a further decline of South African livelihoods and the instability that has come with it, as seen in the rising crime rates, racial intolerance, vigilantism, and growing [...]

   The South African voter reacted to the lack of service delivery and the failed state at local government by voting new parties and the opposition, as well as abstaining from voting the governing ANC. A casual look at the IEC published list of political funding also shows a decline, if [...]