Officially, the SAA transaction to establish the first post-apartheid Black-Owned aviation company with the most global, lucrative, and Mandela goodwill dividend landing rights and routes is off the table. The opportunity to demonstrate the liberation promise of black ownership of the commanding heights of the South African economy as private [...]
South Africa is entering the intensive phases of its election season. The ultimate prize of politics, government, is at stake. The outcomes of elections have constantly reconfigured social and political networks. Depending on the reach, strength, and resilience of the ruling class or establishment, the matrices of power in a [...]
Published in the Sunday Times on 17 March 2024In the middle of an impressive record of decisiveness in implementing what the governing ANC called renewal through weeding out characters responsible for putting its integrity and standing into disrepute, two personalities of the ANC emerge. The pursuit of integrity as a [...]
This article was published on Business Day, 07 March 2024. It was headlined 'Those in power continually redefine the barriers to entry'Rodger Jardine's Change Starts Now (CSN) decision to withdraw from the race echoes more of what will come. South Africa's political order has settled on being driven by political [...]
Published on the Sunday Times 10 March 2024A frontier is a transition zone where explorers and settlers arrive. It is the region at the edge of a settled area. It characterises the relationship between those settling and the indigenous people found in the area you are settling. The contestation for [...]
The edited version was published in the Sunday Times on 03 March 2024 and headlined, "The public service should be free of party-political interests."The election of President Ramaphosa as the fourteenth President of the ANC and the fifth President of the republic was with a promise of a new dawn. [...]
Published on the 25th of February 2024 on the Sunday TimesSouth Africa codified the arrangements with which society would govern itself for the first time into a Constitution in 1910. RSA constitutionalism has always been about creating political stability and policy certainty for the survival of its economy. During colonial [...]
If stadium filling is an indicator of voter support for political parties, the battle is thus far between the ANC and the EFF. The EFF filled the Calabash and Moses Mabhida, and the ANC filled Mbombela and Moses Mabhida. Both are promising siyangqoba rallies to confirm who has a greater [...]
Published in the Sunday Times on 18 February 2024.In times of political upheavals and uncertainty, few countries have weathered what South Africa has gone through. Despite our relatively small GDP per capita compared to economies we would diplomatically take on global issues, it has always been the greater good for [...]
Since the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world has been suffering from the loneliness of the 'us' and 'them' syndrome, which characterised much of the 19th Century after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. In South Africa, this has played itself with race [...]
