For over a century, the ANC has been the central force in South African politics, a dominance that extended to thirty years of government control following the 1994 non-racial elections. Despite a few political parties challenging their absolute power, the ANC remained the nexus of political influence. However, its internal succession [...]

 Since the SACP announced that it has decided to contest the local government elections independently of the ANC, there has never been a public discourse on what this means for the tripartite alliance. The ANC is on record as the force of the left. Its core political rhetoric is still [...]

 This was published in the Sunday Times, 13 April 2025. South Africa should not take lightly the idea that no one party has absolute power to govern. It is disruptive to historically established strategic networks and new ones. Nodes of influence have lost significant ground over several aspects of South [...]

This was published in the TimesLive 10 April 2025 The GNU Budget debacle will go down in history, arguably alongside the JZ stretching of the criminal justice system, as a watershed moment that demonstrates to what lengths the RSA constitutional order can go to make its democratic character a reality.  The [...]