The era of thinking in South Africa is not returning, it never left, and only its activists stopped their noble role. The arc of ignorance bends away from national competitiveness. As individuals, we easily believe our thoughts are the context of all contexts, and yet our collective [...]

       A wave of South Africanness has caught up with the country and might be redefining the nature, character, and content of politics. The transition from the apartheid regime to a constitutional democracy based on the rule of law and supremacy of the constitution has ushered in a phase [...]

   It was in 2004, on a sweltering night in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). We were sitting in one of the only two good hotels that had survived the destruction of war when Kabila senior led his troops in the march to Kinshasa [...]

       In the aftermath of the 54th ANC Conference in NASREC, and since Cyril Ramaphosa has ascended as President of the ANC, the South African democratic order has for a while been defined by resurgences of in-ANC factional fights. Firing the first salvo to the rivalry was the [...]