Nelson Mandela declared, ” the time comes in the life of any nation when there remain only two choices – submit or fight. That time has now come in South Africa. We shall not submit, and we have no choice but to hit back by all means in [...]

      In 2016 at a provincial conference of the South African Democratic Teachers Union, delegates erupted into a song that would define President Cyril Ramaphosa’s march to Luthuli House in 2017. The song called him to ‘phakama as the time had come for him to lead’. Symbolic to the [...]

        On 11 February 1990, South Africa, and the world witnessed one of the most epochal events in human history, the release of Nelson Mandela from prison. This was the most symbolic of acts by the then apartheid state that they were committed to the irreversibility of a [...]

      The South African politics and political analysis academic media complex is faced with the intricate question of what would constitute a centre of politics. For a while, the battle to dislodge the ANC as the context of all political contexts, given its historical advantage of successfully leading the [...]