Wealth and power, the motive force for most tensions and conflicts affecting humanity, are moving away from their dispossession-determined locations in Africa. The colonial order is giving way to a new African order that is increasingly crafted by a new cohort of self-determined and purpose-driven Africans inspired by the possibility [...]

Global competitiveness is a function of (national) leadership. The predictability of societal stability is measured through the depth of the leadership it has on the horizon. Investor confidence is directly related to the capability of would-be key persons in the national leadership grid a society presents to those not interior [...]

The familiar and straightforward models of land-dispossession-anchored-global-capitalist economic system centre around using nation-state-driven violence to sustain the dispossession as a means to legitimise the system of global-north-domination. The origins of such a system are traced from how the global north agreed on its version of sovereignty and which geographical spaces [...]

Published in the Sunday Times on 22 October 2023 A performance of less than 50% by South African political parties in the 2024 national and provincial elections will result in coalition governments. Opinion polls indicate there might not be a 50% winner in the national elections. Mzwandile Masina, former mayor [...]