A casual read of ‘mainstream’ in-ANC social media conversations amongst ‘comrades’ reflects a managed discontent at the decision by President Ramaphosa to give Prince Buthelezi a category one state funeral. In a veiled show of this discontent, the leader of the ANC Veterans League, Dr Snuki Zikalala, interrogates the category [...]

The death of Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi has triggered not only the battle for the pivot of Zulu cultural and political life, the position of the Kingdom’s Premiership but also a battle for a potentially politically stranded KwaZulu-Natal abaNTU vote. The speeches at uMtwana’s memorial service, which in many ways assumed [...]

The (untimely) death of Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi has been received with mixed emotions by South Africans from all walks of life.  There have been varieties of political grandstanding, ranging from outright disparaging remarks about his life to remarks about him having been one of the most outstanding leaders of South Africa. [...]

Yes, death is a mighty and universal truth. When it strikes, an array of virtues rise in mercy, compassion, memory, legacy, and love. Of every tear that we, the sorrowing mortals, shed on graves such as that awaits many of those we consider our leaders, some good might be born [...]