This was published as “Talking about language in a colonial tongue” in the Sunday Times on 22 September 2024. The South African Constitution opens with the words, ‘we, the people of South Africa, recognise the injustices of the past’. One of the most profound injustices of the past is the [...]

 Despite the underlying desire to control narrative formation, manipulation, and characterisation, as well as imposing its hegemony on the GNU, the call for the SG to step down by the DA is a flawed proposition. It’s unclear whether the SG himself or the science his team of statisticians uphold is [...]

This was published in TimesLive on 17 September 2024 under the same title. The administrative order of the Republic of South Africa is deteriorating to the point of disintegration before our eyes. The relative decline of a strong RSA state and the concomitant erosion of the public and civil service [...]

This was published in the Sunday Times on 29 August 2024.   In retrospect, South Africa’s electricity delivery in the last fifteen years is most curious. Several times during this period, RSA has had the worst stages of load-shedding and, thus, energy supply instability. In a post-2017 period, acutely in 2023, [...]