The edited version, titled "If the ANC centre does not hold anarchy looms," was published in the Sunday Times on 06 October 2024.The fierce contest to determine who the first citizen of the National Capital City has begun. It is symptomatic of the pending succession battles in several, if not [...]

The inconvenient rise of the MK Party, a political entity that has emerged as an alternative to the ANC's liberation movement's agenda, is upending the political landscape of South Africa. The global liberal order, which has been working hard to absorb the ANC's cognitive elite and neutralise its flirting with leftist [...]

The edited version was published in TimesLive on 28th September 2024The DA is factually removed as the face or head of the capital city's executive authority. The tyranny of no absolute majority power has reared its head again in Tshwane. The power interregnum will last as long as the political [...]

 The journey towards the 16th of December 2027 ANC National Elective Conference begins in December 2024 at the four influential regions of Limpopo Province. With a 74% outcome at the 2024 National and Provincial elections, which might have arguably saved the ANC from garnering the 40% saving grace outcome, Limpopo [...]

This was published as "Talking about language in a colonial tongue" in the Sunday Times on 22 September 2024.The South African Constitution opens with the words, 'we, the people of South Africa, recognise the injustices of the past'. One of the most profound injustices of the past is the suppression [...]

 Despite the underlying desire to control narrative formation, manipulation, and characterisation, as well as imposing its hegemony on the GNU, the call for the SG to step down by the DA is a flawed proposition. It's unclear whether the SG himself or the science his team of statisticians uphold is [...]

This was published in TimesLive on 17 September 2024 under the same title.The administrative order of the Republic of South Africa is deteriorating to the point of disintegration before our eyes. The relative decline of a strong RSA state and the concomitant erosion of the public and civil service ethic [...]

This was published in the Sunday Times on 29 August 2024.  In retrospect, South Africa's electricity delivery in the last fifteen years is most curious. Several times during this period, RSA has had the worst stages of load-shedding and, thus, energy supply instability. In a post-2017 period, acutely in 2023, exceptions [...]

 The mainstream South African establishment, including some internal to the ANC, views the ANC's permanent 'we are in a revolution' rhetoric as not being in step with what should genuinely be RSA's national interest. The ANC is inarguably the nexus of RSA politics, when it sneezes a lot catches cold. [...]

This was published in TimesLive on 11 September 2024 under the same tile. Whenever there is a discourse about the 'outstanding' aspects of the liberation struggle, there is a tendency to view South Africa from a presumption of a liberation struggle that was fought, won, and ended with a treaty. A [...]