These were the loudest words said to one of South Africa’s billionaires, Patrice Motsepe, at the African National Congress’s National General Council in Birchwood. Patrice Motsepe was ‘recognisably standing’ in the ‘front row’ as the ANC’s Secretary General, Fikile Mbalula, was also ‘standing’ and courting the ‘attention’ of delegates, some [...]

In the absence of a seamless ANC leadership succession plan, and with a vicious battle to take over at all levels, the entry of anyone with formidable credentials is bound to cause a stir. Beyond the Tambo-to-Mandela-to-Mbeki succession transition, the ANC has never had an open discourse on the type or [...]

The digital revolution was sold to us as the great emancipation of knowledge: a technological uprising against distance, scarcity and the old gatekeepers of information. Social media and digital platforms were celebrated as instruments through which humanity would democratise access to ideas. Yet the revolution carried a naïve assumption—that the [...]