This was published in TimesLive 07 May 2025The prize of politics, including liberation politics, is state power through government. Post-liberation Africa has been unable to integrate liberation objectives with state power. Fortunately for South Africa, the political settlement was anchored on the liberation promise being part of the new democratic [...]

 This was published in TimesLive 30 April 2025The May 2024 election outcomes have increased the prospects of South Africa having a government without the ANC for the foreseeable future since 1994. Its inability to garner a fifty-plus-one majority has redefined how political power can be used to advance its political [...]

Gaetano Mosca, an Italian thinker and politician, submits that "in all societies...two classes of people appear: a class that rules and a class that is ruled. The first class, always the less numerous, performs all political functions, monopolises power, and enjoys advantages that power brings, whereas the second, the more [...]

The edited version was published in the Sunday Times, 27 April 2025 A simple search about the purpose of tax yields “to fund social and economic programmes, and to provide public goods and services, such as schools, universities, hospitals, clinics and roads, as well as defence and security. " Taxes make [...]

The world is undergoing a process of creating a convergence of private sector efficiency, public sector leadership legitimacy, political, and democratic criteria in how societies, countries, and, more acutely, governments are led. This has been an ongoing experiment for several years, and an emerging consensus is that the context of [...]

The idea that the ANC is a broad church is born from its support at its founding by Christian Church leaders. Its founding President, elected in absentia, was a practising clergyman, Reverend John Langalibalele Dube. Its character as a church raises the question: What is its great commission for its members?“The [...]

Published in the BusinessDay of 23 April 2025 The ensemble that the tariff wars have lurched global trade into chaos might have rewritten how smart democracies should deal with geopolitics. The new foreign policy theorems of transactional international relations are starting to procure private C-suites as the global trade-facing brigades for [...]

For over a century, the ANC has been the central force in South African politics, a dominance that extended to thirty years of government control following the 1994 non-racial elections. Despite a few political parties challenging their absolute power, the ANC remained the nexus of political influence. However, its internal succession [...]

 Since the SACP announced that it has decided to contest the local government elections independently of the ANC, there has never been a public discourse on what this means for the tripartite alliance. The ANC is on record as the force of the left. Its core political rhetoric is still [...]

 This was published in the Sunday Times, 13 April 2025.South Africa should not take lightly the idea that no one party has absolute power to govern. It is disruptive to historically established strategic networks and new ones. Nodes of influence have lost significant ground over several aspects of South Africa's [...]