Over the last few years, in fact, in the previous fifteen years, South Africa experienced a slide in the capacity and capability of the state to meet its executive and constitutional obligations to its citizens. The post-apartheid reconstruction and development component of the democratic order being created has been [...]

   As the arc of political hope for the future bends towards delusion for those that celebrated the outcomes of NASREC 2.0, if you like the 55th ANC Conference, the question is, have the tendencies that lost the elections left the ANC. While every hegemon tends to believe it can [...]

   Often, we hear those wiser than many declare that you begin to change, grow, and transform only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone. We only understand what they mean until we encounter personalities that embody this truism. In the life of an academically focused human being, the journey [...]

 The creation or building of a political order is an idea that develops over a sustained period of time and is in all instances a conglomeration of various interests into a few ‘national’ interests or ‘elite consensus’ on diverse interests. It is an outcome of an inner circle, surrounded by [...]