South Africa might be entering a new phase of anti-system politics that does not have race and apartheid colonialism as its vector of analysis and existence. Literature on anti-system or Establishment politics reveals that fundamentally, anti-system activists, and ultimately voters, are bred by frustrations with political systems they perceive [...]

    In her book Shock Doctrine The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Naomi Klein introduces how conditions for shock therapy as an economic intervention could be created to create a context within which disaster capitalism could thrive. The mooted state of national disaster discussed by the governing African National Congress is [...]

     The Democratic Alliance (DA), South Africa’s official opposition party, and others are in court over the ANC’s cadre deployment policy. Whilst the DAs action is plausible to the extent that it will put into judicial test the correctness or otherwise of a cadre deployment policy in democratic order such [...]

South Africa has experienced unprecedented electricity load shedding since 2018 and has yet to show any hope of a quicker recovery, given its commitments to ‘alternative energy sources’. This might go in history as the most energy-vulnerable era of South African life since the dawn of democracy. The reasons for [...]