“As long as many of our people still live in utter poverty, as long as children still live under plastic covers, as long as many of our people are still without jobs, no South African should rest and wallow in the joy of freedom.” Nelson Mandela, 26 June 1996. Whether [...]

“It is the episteme of what you are about which makes you sustainable” Steve Biko occupies a singular place in South African political thought because he understood that politics is never only a contest over institutions, policies or offices. It is also a struggle over consciousness: over how a people [...]

An essay on elite circulation, democratic authority and the reconstruction of elite–mass linkages. It supports deeper conversations between the Thinc Foundation, partners, and vision-sharing institutions as they chart a strategic path beyond narrow party politics and the contestation for personalised number plates. Introduction South Africa is living through the painful [...]