The advent of a possible national coalition government occasioned by an envisaged low electoral performance of the ANC in 2024 has sparked puzzling thinking about the coalition the ANC might have to form. At the same time, the government of national unity cooperation between the ANC and the liberal right [...]

When President Ramaphosa won the 54th National Conference of the ANC in 2017, and later the 2019 National Elections for him to be sworn in as President of the Republic, many South Africans breathed a sigh of relief. Ramaphosa’s NEC recalled Jacob Zuma in early 2018, and one centre of [...]

As early as 2004, when the governing African National Congress received 45% of the Western Cape Provincial votes, few policy analysts, scholars, and pundits in South Africa were waxing lyrical about the stirrings of a coalition politics future in the making. They appreciated the truth of a majority rule system [...]

For a while, the idea of being a member of the ANC was ideationally enterprising for scholars, thinkers, and activists alike. Established by a cohort of mission schools and foreign universities educated BaNtu Black elites, the ANC’s point of departure was instructive to the intellectualism that undergirded its entire liberation [...]