TCE alumni should return to Soshanguve not only to remember what was, but to organise for the future of teacher education. From Memory to Purpose On 15 August 2026, alumni of the Transvaal College of Education will return to the former Soshanguve campus. The gathering has been billed as [...]

Patrice Motsepe’s polling lead is less a prediction of the 2027 conference than a revolt against the ANC’s existing leadership supply. The most consequential finding in the latest Social Research Foundation poll may not be the ANC’s fall to 34%. It is that Patrice Motsepe remains the clear public preference [...]

Every August, South Africa commemorates Women’s Month and recalls the courage of the women who marched to the Union Buildings in 1956. The ritual is historically necessary, but remembrance alone is politically insufficient. A democratic society cannot honour women symbolically while reproducing institutions, markets and households in which authority remains [...]

  Author: Sandile Memela* The middle class is not one thing. It is not a single, neat block that thinks, votes, or acts the same way. It is split, uneven, and easily divided. That matters, because some think that we keep using “middle class” as an insult and as an [...]