Let this rendition start by congratulating Matshela Koko and others for the courage to say, ‘We are not what they say we are’. It is a statement loaded with a consciousness of self that will be liberatory to many executives in South Africa who have been silenced by the noise [...]

The South African Constitution is the supreme source of law. It legalises a non-racial, non-sexist, united, and democratic South Africa. It commits the State to recognise the injustices of the past, heal the divisions of that past and establish a society based on democratic values, social justice, and human rights. [...]

THE THRUST OF THIS POST WAS PUBLISHED IN THE SUNDAY TIMES OF 19 NOVEMBER 2023. THIS IS AN UNEDITED VERSION.  The thought of a less than 50% performance by all the parties contesting for elections is tantamount to thinking of South Africa in post-ANC-as-governing-party terms. Opinion polls about the 2024 [...]

“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other”, writes Charles Dickens in his celebrated work, A Tale of Two Cities. In articulating disdain for apartheid, a crime against humanity, Capetonians were once again seen united in [...]