Today is December 31, and it marks the end of a calendar year; it defines a time society has agreed to mark twelve monthly periods with which age will be determined. On this day, I would, as a young boy, generally be in Soweto, Central Western Jabavu, 1037, to be [...]

The future of the ANC, once a professed force of the left, is now in jeopardy. Shaped by the geopolitical dynamics of the Cold War and the West's lack of support, the ANC was compelled to align itself with the left. However, its roots in the African liberal elite would [...]

As adopted at the Congress of the FUNDERS somewhere in South Africa,  1990 We, the Funders of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to know:that South Africa belongs to all who FUND it, black and white, and that no government can justly claim authority unless it is based [...]

 As the constitutional order advances and the inherent liberation promises endow our humanity with freedoms, South Africans must embrace the responsibility and obligations to safeguard the democratic order as a guaranteeing firmament. A new epoch began in 1994 when South Africans resolved to recognise the past injustices and establish social [...]

The NDR, a concept with rich historical significance, has been the most loosely defined. Unless otherwise changed, the ANC's POLEDU material explains the NDR as "the process of struggle to transfer power to (we) the people. Such power is political, economic, and social control." It articulates the objectives of the [...]

Only some political revolutions get to be completed. Because all revolutions end up with a settlement by elites and incumbents, they have become an outcome of historical moment-defined interests and less about the actual revolution. This settlement often involves a power-sharing agreement among the ruling elites and the incumbent government, [...]

 This was published in the TimesLive 13 December 2024As South Africa approaches its holiday season, there will be no holiday for the ANC. The year ends with one of its fiercely debated subjects, the disbandment of PECs in the two economically dominant provinces. Without the benefit of criteria used to [...]

The edited version was published in the Sunday Times on 1 December 2024 under the headline. "Capable municipalities are the ultimate coal face of governance."South Africa is a multi-jurisdiction democratic state. While many would want to believe that it operates within a context of separation of powers, it is, in [...]

The ANC's member integrity management policy is adrift. The credibility of its leadership is putting the organisation into disrepute. The effectiveness of its step-aside rule is undermined by how those in leadership react to revelations of malfeasance. It is not the guilty or otherwise verdict that matters, but the extent [...]

This has been published in TimesLive 27 November 2024Establishing the Government of National Unity (GNU) has been lauded as the best way to govern South Africa. It is the culmination of a decades-old sought-after political alternative to apartheid by the liberal centre: the protection of minority rights without undermining majority [...]