Published in TimesLive 20 March 2025 The decision by the Afriforum and Solidarity to dare the Ramaphosa-led GNU and mastermind a US-backed campaign to extort outstanding concessions from the CODESA settlement marks a new ideological turn since the 1914 Rebellion against the involvement of the Union of SA in the [...]

On its way to negotiating with the apartheid regime between 1985 and 1990, the ANC was already under pressure to seize the moral high ground of the struggle against apartheid rather than hope for a hard power type of advantage. The perceived triumph of the liberal order with the US [...]

 A defining feature of freedom is that as the frontiers of society’s knowledge about it are extended, new mysteries beyond the frontiers become the sharper focus. Post-1994-South Africa is entering a stage where its freedom is gradually getting unencumbered to individuals, institutions, organisations, and political parties that played a role [...]

South African history tells us that the Voortrekkers, Dutch-speaking settlers known as Boers, left the British Cape Colony in Southern Africa between 1835 and the early 1840s in search of independence and new territory. This journey called the Great Trek, involves travelling overland to the continent’s interior using ox-drawn wagons. [...]