This was published in the TimesLive 10 April 2025The GNU Budget debacle will go down in history, arguably alongside the JZ stretching of the criminal justice system, as a watershed moment that demonstrates to what lengths the RSA constitutional order can go to make its democratic character a reality. The coalition [...]
Since the 1994 democratic breakthrough, the ANC has been living a life of a political party contesting for state power, at almost any cost and that of a liberation movement working to transform South Africa and build a more equal society. It lived as the governing party for most of [...]
The consensus of a liberated South Africa is under stress, and a new paradigm of freedom is taking center stage. Societal interests are increasingly about the impact of public policy on the quality of life that accrues. Generational expectations have changed. New expressions of active diversities are reconfiguring the nature [...]
The two South African Nationalist movements, the African National Congress and the National Party, established a year apart in 1912 and 1913, have been the dominant players in defining the anti-colonial struggles that unfolded from the beginning of a constitutional state in 1910 until the ultimate non-racialisation of South Africa’s [...]
This was published in TimesLive 02 April 2025, headlined: Tipping point: the uncomfortable truth draws near.The end of post-liberation hegemonic politics is with us. Society is preoccupied with a search for a stable political order, and what we have is deteriorating. The post-May 2024 convulsions have created a desire for [...]
As part of its renewal program, the ANC has established a facility where its members can come together and participate in a course that repositions the ANC at the center of South African history. The course serves as an intervention to clarify the misconceptions, misinterpretations, and narratives surrounding what the [...]
Published in TimesLive 26 March 2025: In search of Mandela: the urgent dilemma of SA leadership successionThe leadership question in South Africa is again coming into the spotlight as society considers who will lead the country after Ramaphosa. The infamous "we all have smallanyana skeletons in the closet" resonates whenever [...]
Lynching is explained as a method of social and racial control meant to terrorise a caste or class into submission or inferior status. This method is commonly used to subvert a rules-based process that the lynching mob and individual know would outlaw. Lynchers administer torment and torture (physical or mental) [...]
Published in TimesLive 20 March 2025The decision by the Afriforum and Solidarity to dare the Ramaphosa-led GNU and mastermind a US-backed campaign to extort outstanding concessions from the CODESA settlement marks a new ideological turn since the 1914 Rebellion against the involvement of the Union of SA in the First [...]
