The ANC is in a leadership contest. Leaders are deep inside an election campaign. The contest’s theme is the ANC’s renewal, rebuilding, and unity. In pursuit of the theme and their leadership ambitions, contesting leaders have, by default, become magnets of one coalition/faction or another inside the ANC. Interesting [...]

    In times of political upheavals and uncertainty, few countries have weathered what South Africa has gone through without an entire combat war. Despite our clearly diverse and muted demographic makeup in race, class, and tribal terms, there has always been a way we would choose for the greater good [...]

 “We have concluded that whilst there is a prima facie case of corruption against the deputy president, our prospects of success are not strong enough… we are not sure if we have a winnable case. Accordingly, we have decided not to prosecute the deputy president”, declared the head of the [...]

 “Heritage is an embodiment of a past we wish to take into our future without losing the benefits of a changing present. It defines not only a sense of belonging, but it also makes the past a form of the present and an abstraction of what a future will look [...]