The proverbial story of a performance measure for one indicator at the expense of the rest has caught up with South Africa’s obsession to prove its state capture and corruption theory correct. The tale goes ‘a physiotherapist hospital was lauded for its best performance in keeping patients for a [...]

    The ANC’s succession debate has again taken centre stage in the analysis of all manner of discourse in South Africa. The contest for political power is now firmly within the ANC domain. Opposing factions have once again concretised around personalities and not ‘policy positions’ and ‘promises for change’ even [...]

    The outcomes of the November 2021 Municipal Elections, unprecedented as they have been and still are, might have brought to an end the transformation rhetoric as a currency of the South African voter market. When the fourth decade since Nelson Mandela was released began, relations between South Africans were [...]

     “Just call me Arch”, read the inscriptions on the t-shirts he wore during defiance campaigns when he was not in his famous pink cassock. He was the people’s bishop who was always in the frontline. He took a stand against apartheid when he left teaching as a protest [...]