It is my pleasure to be invited to this conference. I have been asking myself what qualifies me to be the keynote speaker. In my quest to find the correct answer, because I know there are many another incorrect answers, I stumbled on the fact that I like controversy. Controversy [...]

This was written on the 20 July 2009 The recent pronouncements on Co-operative government have resuscitated the almost buried debate on the nature of our governance system as it relates to the powers and functions of sub-national governments and the concomitant intergovernmental relations system. Whilst the current igniters seem to [...]

This edited version of this article was published by the CITY PRESS: 10 May 2009 The 2009 national elections results have not only redefined the South African political landscape but also laid the basis for the fracturing of existing paradigms of intergovernmental relations. The intergovernmental relations honeymoon that was ‘oiled’ [...]

This was written on the 30 April 2009 Did the Jacob Zuma ANC victory either expose an apparent dearth of rational discourse in our democracy or reignited the discourse. Rational debates are by their nature expected to assume a scientifically justifiable objectivity; particularly in the often muddy political theatre. The [...]