To my beloved family and dear friends: today, 25th September 2026. I celebrate life with a full heart. My mother told me that I was born on this very date, a Saturday, in the early hours of the morning—at our home, “ko-12715” Itsuseng Street, Mamelodi East, PO Rethabile, 0122. That [...]

State Power, Coalition Accountability and the Burden of Democratic Renewal Abstract: This essay examines the African National Congress as a layered historical formation whose contemporary electoral challenges stem from the unfinished transformation of liberation memory into democratic accountability. It argues that the ANC’s evolution from a petitioning body into a [...]

Summary This rejoinder responds to Dr Zamani Saul’s article, Collapse of COSATU’s 15th National Congress is Due to Union Leadership’s Political Elitism and the ANC/SACP Gridlock, published on 19 September 2026. While Dr Saul’s article correctly identifies the degeneration of sections of trade union leadership into a political elite and [...]

“He is a dreamer; let us leave him: pass” Julius Caesar.  Every political formation has its appointed hour: a moment when accumulated contradictions stop being background noise and become the sound of an approaching rupture. For the Tripartite Alliance, that hour may well be 2029. The warning signs are not [...]