For a while, the politics of South Africa have been in an antithesis mode about almost everything. The last time we were in a thesis mode as a society, it was about what should our democratic future and order be. This was a time when we innovated what is [...]

      Upon assuming office as the fifth President of South Africa for its sixth administration, President Ramaphosa in his State of the Nation Address to Parliament announced a new service delivery approach modeled around the centrality of the District (and Metropolitan) Municipal jurisdiction as the focal space within which [...]

     The African National Congress is facing a national elective conference in December 2022. The contestations for leadership of Africa’s oldest ‘liberation movement’ have begun, interests will define new political fiends, factional templates will change, professional lobbyists will descend on our shores, and thinking will soon start reflecting encumbrances. In [...]

     The reality of a post-flood disaster in KwaZulu-Natal is an inevitability all of South Africa should start dealing with. The management of the disaster that befalls society is a public affairs management endeavor whose outcome redefines life, livelihoods, and their attendant faculties into posterity. The scope and reach [...]