Published in the TimesLife on 11 July 2024 under the caption “ANC has graduated into a partner and ideological sweetheart of the DA”. The emerging political landscape in South Africa redefines how political adversaries compete for voters’ hearts, souls, and minds. From the moment the ANC succeeded in chiselling its [...]

The competitiveness of nations has been measured on several matrices, with economic growth and development as the core measure. This is crucial as it directly impacts society’s quality of life. Nations have added new variables to these matrices, some of which have tracked and benchmarked indices to create acceptable thresholds [...]

Published in The Sunday Times 07 July 2024, captioned “The sprouts of reactionary nationalism.” When Tintswalo turns sixty and thinks of the moment that marked the historic point of departure of our democratic order, the 2024 National Elections will loom large. The moment when the liberation movement and its allies [...]

The concept of political power has been undergoing revisions since the second half of the 1900s. How people agreed on the arrangements to govern each other started to reflect a growing assertiveness of society wanting to claim ownership of political power exercised on their behalf. As these bold demands by [...]