The ANC showing in the 2016 Municipal Elections results represents its most visible repudiation by urban voters that cared to go to the polls. It redefined the political control and management of municipal budgets in South Africa’s major metropolitan areas. It put on the sharp end of any analysis tool [...]

Dictatorships do not come as once off events, they are a gradual process. The story of the proverbial frog in a cooking pot explains the gradualism associated with how a dictatorship settles in. My grandfather was the first person to tell me the story. Later in life, and after reading [...]

The generation of leaders that Tambo and Mandela led into the opportunity desert that South Africa was, seem to have or is collapsing into despair and panic over and over in moments of crises. Broken by encumbrances they carry in the system, and as an establishment, including shocking revelations of [...]

In a world full of uncertainties and deceit, friendship becomes what is available to bring sanity. We often find ourselves in situations where there is always a need to make a choice between what is good for our selfish joy or better for our collective happiness. The self is often [...]