As a coffee lover and a person that has taught himself to manage the chronic South African sickness of seeing everything in black and white, I one day went through an interesting experience on this white and black thing. I was at a café somewhere in Tshwane (if Kallie Kriel [...]

In one of his seminal speeches Martin Luther King Jnr warns society that “in the end, we will remember not the words (or noises) of our enemies, but the silences of our friends. The ascendance of Mr Julius Malema to what is arguably the most powerful position to be held [...]

The 2011 local government elections have come and gone. The results have been released by what is arguably the most efficient elections management agency in the entire developing world, the IEC. Political analysts and statisticians are now grappling with the implications of the numbers and how these are reflective of [...]

The ANC’s cleansing ceremony at the Solomon Mahlangu Square in Mamelodi, supported by the Mahlangu family, raises fundamental questions about the liberation struggle legacy ownership. The gallantry and moral high ground that continues to characterise the South African liberation struggle has arguably made its legacy the most sought-after political asset [...]