Published in the Sunday Times on 16 January 2024With Jacob Zuma's decision to openly campaign for the MK Party and not the ANC, of which he is still a member, an intense debate about whether or not to put him through the disciplinary process has engulfed the governing party. Some [...]
The Israeli response to South Africa's rendition at the International Court of Justice reveals the depth of crisis in the State of Israel regarding how it deals with its Palestinian reality. How Israel put the best foot forward and attitude towards Palestinian lives demonstrated the dramatic manifestation of the systemic [...]
What has been difficult for the dominated global South to express its discontent regarding the plight of the Palestinian people has, at last, found a voice through South Africa’s courage to take on its arch-enemy, apartheid. Gaza striped pyjamas were gradually becoming an accepted fashion to the extent that it [...]
THIS PIECE WAS PUBLISHED IN THE SUNDAY TIMES OF 07 JANUARY 2024 UNDER THE HEADLINE "MK PARTY COULD TURN ZUMA INTO A NEW BUTHELEZI". THIS IS THE UNEDITED VERSIONOne of the famous quotes by Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi was, 'So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly, I will still [...]
Basic political theory teaches that individuals are components of interests. They are embodiments of the diversities in society upon which politics are generally based. Their sovereign character as okindividuals makes them not simply puppets of interests but can operate as nodes of sponsored blocks of interests. With accumulated social, political, [...]
The decision by South Africa to stick its neck out in what will go in history as its second anti-apartheid frontier is important beyond the Nelson Mandela directive that "our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians." The ICJ case will subject South Africa, and the ANC in [...]
The launch of the uMkhonto we Sizwe political party has upended the normality of established electoral politics. As the liberal establishment is consolidating a consensus on the possibility of a liberal right coalition government, the politics of the historically marginalised are also consolidating into an anti-establishment bloc. Consequently, the post-apartheid [...]
One of the greatest miscarriages of apartheid South Africa was its inability to produce out-of-homeland leaders, men and women, who would enjoy the legitimacy to be entrusted with the comprehensive project of liberating South Africa. The African National Congress, because of its then hegemonic prowess and timeless monumental policy documents, [...]
Published on 10 December 2023 in the Sunday Times.A study on the Black Middle-Class Report by the University of Cape Town in 2020 shows a dramatic growth in the black middle class, eclipsing that of the white middle class. It reflects on the segment’s significant and continued rise, the nuanced [...]
South African black business leaders have been decrying the post-1994 Establishment (mainly political) for not having been serious about Black Economic Empowerment. They argue that current efforts do or will not recalibrate the templates of economic participation, exclusion, and dominance. Notwithstanding the promulgation of a regulatory framework to advance BEE [...]
