An edited version was published in the Sunday Times on 01 October 2023 South Africa is blessed with a unique context of having its heads of state living long enough to see the good and bad of what they presided upon. At last count, the previous seven Presidents lived long [...]

Published in the Sunday Times on 08 October 2023 In his editorial of 01 October 2023, Sunday Times editor Sthembiso Msomi submits that it feels like the government has given up on recovery. He ‘laments’ that since 2007 “building a capable state has been a popular phrase…yet on close examination, [...]

We seldom meet people who make an indelible mark in our very lives that we realise after they have departed this world how big a gap they filled. As we grow up, we meet and designate titles to people we encounter. Some we are born into defined relationships with them, and [...]

The South African liberation struggle for a democratic order has the country’s Constitution as the legal document defining the end and arguably success of the struggle. The 1996 Constitution is the basis upon which the Republic of South Africa is considered one sovereign and democratic state. Constitutionalism seems to be [...]