Up until the EFF became the first opposition political party in South Africa to fill the FNB stadium, many people refused to believe that it is an alternative in the making, if not a new political force to reckon with. Notwithstanding warnings from ANC youth leaguers who were part of [...]

The 2024 National Elections will be the most consequential in defining the true ideological position of the broad church of South Africa, the ANC. The liberation struggle, if enfranchisement was its fundamental goal, has ended. What might be outstanding is the pursuit of the National Democratic Revolution. The steady decline [...]

Like any system, a democratic order is susceptible to disruptions it least anticipates. Democracies navigate complex paths created by those agreeing to govern themselves. One of the most significant disruptors of a democracy is when an election happens, and there is no outright winner. This disrupts paradigms of the majority [...]

Africa, and South Africa as its abstraction in this rendition, has a wealth of experience and intelligence, or rather wisdom, that its development challenges are incongruent with the knowledge it commands. The nodes of influence of its past leaders at all levels, mainly those interior to its struggles, should be [...]