Published in the Sunday Times on 18 February 2024. In times of political upheavals and uncertainty, few countries have weathered what South Africa has gone through. Despite our relatively small GDP per capita compared to economies we would diplomatically take on global issues, it has always been the greater good [...]

 Since the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world has been suffering from the loneliness of the ‘us’ and ‘them’ syndrome, which characterised much of the 19th Century after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. In South Africa, this has played itself with race [...]

This was published in the Sunday Times of 14 February 2024 In a quest to give the successes of the governing ANC a face, President Ramaphosa introduced Tintswalo to make its thirty-year reign more real. Tintswalo is not the ANC’s election campaign mascot. She represents a human form of the [...]

As the thirtieth anniversary of South Africa’s non-racial and non-sexist democracy fizzles and the fiftieth beaconing, pursuing a human rights-based rule of law by erstwhile revolutionaries will create a new tidal wave of citizen-state relationships, particularly the understanding of the rule of law. Essential public questions include how to accept [...]