The African National Congress is officially still pursuing a National Democratic Revolution. When interrogated about what it ideologically stands for, except for the amorphous broad-church response, the most crisp answer is its pursuit of a continuous National Democratic Revolution whose end state is a National Democratic Society.    The defining [...]

 This was published in TimeLive 16 October 2024 As the reality of the last term of Ramaphosa starts to sink within the ranks of the ANC, the Gauteng posture on the GNU may be seen as the firing of the starting gun to mark the beginning of a race towards [...]

The announcement of the 2024 National and Provincial elections results will forever signify a posterity-defining moment for the hegemonic hold of the ANC over South African politics. This is a moment of profound significance, a turning point in the political landscape of South Africa. The absolute political power to govern the [...]

This was published in the TimesLive on 08 October 2024 under the title “The Hlophe-JSC paradox: builders of the constitution couldn’t have seen this coming. To say that justice has become a means to other ends and not an end itself is not a semantic quibble but a serious moral point. [...]