The South African democracy is a nineteenth to twentieth-century construct. It is etched on the promise of equal rights to all voters despite it operating in an economic order that produces chronic inequalities. The politics to conserve order are not in the domain of those we elect; they are a [...]

The election campaigning has officially ended; whoever is still convincing is now clutching the proverbial straws. The country’s political parties have spoken, promised, and even lied to us as a society. We are now transparent about who we will vote for, including if we will vote.    As a people, [...]

 South Africa has arrived at a stage where its politics are shaping into two dominant orientations, with rats and mice falling between the uncovered spaces. Two nodes are developing, albeit with ideological overlaps, the intersection of which is an area the economic establishment wishes could be occupied by a pliant [...]

THIS IS THE UNEDITED VERSION OF AN ARTICLE THAT APPEARED IN THE SUNDAY TIMES OF 12 MAY 2024, page 17.  The sight of a post-apartheid South African flag burning in your lounge through a national news agency should have evoked emotions of disdain and insult in a state that has [...]