The total strategy was apartheid South Africa’s response to what it perceived as the total onslaught to annihilate ‘white power’ and dominance on the African continent as represented by an industrialised Republic of South Africa. As a political survival construct aimed at making the apartheid crime against humanity a frontier [...]

For the South African post-apartheid political establishment, how they contest political power to remain firmly in their hands seems they must survive narratives every time they approach succession epochs. The 2022 Conference of the ANC was supposed to be a moment of triumph for the Paul-Mashatile-as-a-node establishment. What is now [...]

The past four elections for national and local government (2014, 2016, 2019, and 2024) have communicated voter sentiments about how they feel about those who govern them in all spheres of government. The granularity of details about the growing discontent at those that govern has voter numbers as evidence of [...]

The decline of political engagement in the structures of the ANC at the altar of a politics-for-money culture has impacted the value of being a member of the movement. There was a time in the history of the ANC, being its member attracted prestige because of how sophisticated those who [...]