Historical events, especially destiny-defining ones, tend to yield unintended consequences. History is a collection of human decisions, actions, and reactions, more acutely their impact on society, politics, and economics. The outcome of the 2024 elections has put us in a new post-something. While we are still in a post-apartheid context, [...]
The seventh administration will go on to history as the culmination of a convergence of the political, constitutional, democratic, economic, and judicial order in the Republic of South Africa. Dubbed the most consequential elections since 1994, it has foregrounded several interests, including the bursting to the centre of ethnic, racial, [...]
This was published in TimesLive on 10th June 2024. The 2024 National and Provincial elections, a pivotal moment in South African politics, have concluded. The process of forming a government is now in motion and hinges on the configurations of coalitions and the confidence-in-supply arrangements. In their collective wisdom, the voters [...]
Published in the Sunday Times on 18 June 2024The less discussed and often debated matter about African liberation movements is the intricate nature of their nationalism post-liberation. In the case of South Africa, the struggle against apartheid was a pivotal moment in the nation's history, and the significance of post-liberation [...]
Indeed, South Africa will struggle to restore the practice of a governing party with an absolute majority to power like we had in the past 30 years. The era of coalitions and minority governments is with the democratic order. The 2016 and 2021 local government elections outcomes ushered in an [...]
This was in the BusinessDay of 04 June 2024: Minority government would allow ANC to govern without a coalition. The journey towards the thriving of a normative majority rule and the subversion of a prerogative tyranny of the majority took thirty years. Notwithstanding the animating force majority rule had sometimes used [...]
Catastrophe theory elucidates the inherent vulnerabilities of any system, be it political or otherwise. A system can abruptly spiral into chaos, surprise, or derailment, a culmination of various factors. South Africa's post-election process is a striking example, grappling with an unforeseen context where a political party, not even a blip [...]
The leader of society role of the ANC is now reduced to a 42% influence over the most active agency of the state, the government. The decline of the ANC's political power in the aftermath of the 2024 National and Provincial Elections and the concomitant rise of the opposition complex, [...]
THE EDITED VERSION OF THIS WAS PUBLISHED IN THE SUNDAY TIMES ONLINE OF 21 May 2024. The battle for South African voters has been fought on the streets, stadiums, social media, and all other platforms. Pacts and coalitions against the governing party were formed and announced. New political parties entered and [...]
THE EDITED VERSION OF THIS WAS PUBLISHED IN THE BUSINESS DAY OF 27 MAY 2024Over the weekend, South Africans were turned into a jury listening to the closing arguments to influence their decisions on May 29, 2024, when actual voting would happen. An enormous citizen challenge awaits in preserving South [...]
