The Republic of South Africa’s judicial authority is vested in the courts. The judiciary is not only a separate authority but an independent one in character. It is accountable to the Constitution and the laws that emanate from it. It facilitates the adjudication of disputes within a rule-of-law context. The [...]

 Local government is the last line of democracy.  As South Africa prepares for 2026 local government elections, many speculate how these will define the consequential 2029 National Elections. Service delivery dysfunctions, public representatives behaviour, and overall performance of the economy has stirred anger and indifference at almost all municipal wards. [...]

There are questions that South Africans find difficult to answer about their politics. The most crucial question is whether the country has arrived at a post-ANC governing party state.  South Africa’s constitutional order is paraded, legitimately so, as one of the best in the world. As an order, it has [...]

Thus far, the chief purpose of a liberation struggle has been to free those on whose behalf it is waged. Now that this has been an elusive end in many ways for post-colonial states, from now on, the chief purpose of those living in post-liberation democracies should be to re-liberate [...]