Basic political theory teaches that individuals are components of interests. They are embodiments of the diversities in society upon which politics are generally based. Their sovereign character as okindividuals makes them not simply puppets of interests but can operate as nodes of sponsored blocks of interests. With accumulated social, political, [...]

The decision by South Africa to stick its neck out in what will go in history as its second anti-apartheid frontier is important beyond the Nelson Mandela directive that “our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.” The ICJ case will subject South Africa, and the ANC in [...]

The launch of the uMkhonto we Sizwe political party has upended the normality of established electoral politics. As the liberal establishment is consolidating a consensus on the possibility of a liberal right coalition government, the politics of the historically marginalised are also consolidating into an anti-establishment bloc. Consequently, the post-apartheid [...]

 One of the greatest miscarriages of apartheid South Africa was its inability to produce out-of-homeland leaders, men and women, who would enjoy the legitimacy to be entrusted with the comprehensive project of liberating South Africa. The African National Congress, because of its then hegemonic prowess and timeless monumental policy documents, [...]