The South African Police Services used to be feared by criminals. Although sophisticated crime syndicates operating in RSA chafed under the SAPS, they all accepted its authority over law and order. Throughout its various reform and transformation journeys, those who were at variance with the law knew their limits. As [...]

Comrades, it is true that local government concerns water coming out of taps, lights switching on, municipal roads without potholes, sewerage not flowing on street pavements, and several other basic amenities, including our graves functioning properly.  Through local government, society has a direct experience of what government, the state, or [...]

The political discourse in South Africa is about to be recharged, a festival of ideas is looming. After the dormant birth of the National Dialogue, which would have infused the political schedule with diverse content, the ANC published in its influential journal, Umrabulo, a Base Discussion Document for its December [...]

The consistent policy statements by Gauteng Premiers, starting with the inaugural one, Tokyo Sexwale, underscore a pressing need to review the provincial government’s powers. At the first meeting of the President’s Coordination Committee, an intergovernmental forum comprising the President and Premiers, in 1994, Premier Tokyo Sexwale publicly called for his [...]