Published in the Sunday Times on 18 June 2024 The less discussed and often debated matter about African liberation movements is the intricate nature of their nationalism post-liberation. In the case of South Africa, the struggle against apartheid was a pivotal moment in the nation’s history, and the significance of [...]

Indeed, South Africa will struggle to restore the practice of a governing party with an absolute majority to power like we had in the past 30 years. The era of coalitions and minority governments is with the democratic order.  The 2016 and 2021 local government elections outcomes ushered in an [...]

This was in the BusinessDay of 04 June 2024: Minority government would allow ANC to govern without a coalition.  The journey towards the thriving of a normative majority rule and the subversion of a prerogative tyranny of the majority took thirty years. Notwithstanding the animating force majority rule had sometimes [...]

Catastrophe theory elucidates the inherent vulnerabilities of any system, be it political or otherwise. A system can abruptly spiral into chaos, surprise, or derailment, a culmination of various factors. South Africa’s post-election process is a striking example, grappling with an unforeseen context where a political party, not even a blip [...]