This was published in the TimesLive 13 December 2024 As South Africa approaches its holiday season, there will be no holiday for the ANC. The year ends with one of its fiercely debated subjects, the disbandment of PECs in the two economically dominant provinces. Without the benefit of criteria used [...]

The edited version was published in the Sunday Times on 1 December 2024 under the headline. “Capable municipalities are the ultimate coal face of governance.” South Africa is a multi-jurisdiction democratic state. While many would want to believe that it operates within a context of separation of powers, it is, [...]

The ANC’s member integrity management policy is adrift. The credibility of its leadership is putting the organisation into disrepute. The effectiveness of its step-aside rule is undermined by how those in leadership react to revelations of malfeasance. It is not the guilty or otherwise verdict that matters, but the extent [...]

This has been published in TimesLive 27 November 2024 Establishing the Government of National Unity (GNU) has been lauded as the best way to govern South Africa. It is the culmination of a decades-old sought-after political alternative to apartheid by the liberal centre: the protection of minority rights without undermining [...]