Edited version was published in the Sunday Times on 20 August 2023The implications of a below 50% threshold election result by all political parties in South Africa will be both a positive test of the resilience of the fragile democratic order and a liability to how it operates on behalf [...]
Up until the EFF became the first opposition political party in South Africa to fill the FNB stadium, many people refused to believe that it is an alternative in the making, if not a new political force to reckon with. Notwithstanding warnings from ANC youth leaguers who were part of [...]
The 2024 National Elections will be the most consequential in defining the true ideological position of the broad church of South Africa, the ANC. The liberation struggle, if enfranchisement was its fundamental goal, has ended. What might be outstanding is the pursuit of the National Democratic Revolution. The steady decline [...]
Like any system, a democratic order is susceptible to disruptions it least anticipates. Democracies navigate complex paths created by those agreeing to govern themselves. One of the most significant disruptors of a democracy is when an election happens, and there is no outright winner. This disrupts paradigms of the majority [...]
Africa, and South Africa as its abstraction in this rendition, has a wealth of experience and intelligence, or rather wisdom, that its development challenges are incongruent with the knowledge it commands. The nodes of influence of its past leaders at all levels, mainly those interior to its struggles, should be [...]
Asked in a Sunday Times interview if South Africa was ready for a white president, Pieter Groenewald, the leader of the Freedom Front Plus, retorted with an emphatic "No, we are too close to apartheid still". He said, "It would be difficult to convince traditional ANC voters to ditch the [...]
South Africa witnessed the filling of its largest stadium, the Calabash, at the instance of celebrating ten years of the Economic Freedom Front led by Julius Malema. Decorated as the former President of COSAS and ANCYL, Julius is by far one of the most seasoned leaders of his generation and [...]
In Politics, the concept Establishment "describes the dominant social group, the élite, who control a polity, an organisation, or an institution. In the praxis of power, The Establishment usually is a self-selecting, closed élite entrenched within specific institutions; hence, a relatively small social class can exercise all socio-political control". Suppose you thought South Africa does not [...]
In a democracy defined by a written Constitution with a clear distinction of authorities as a function of the separation of powers, the contest for political power can easily default on personalities than the actual demands the Constitution imposes on the leadership function. South Africa is facing an election where [...]
The total strategy was apartheid South Africa's response to what it perceived as the total onslaught to annihilate 'white power' and dominance on the African continent as represented by an industrialised Republic of South Africa. As a political survival construct aimed at making the apartheid crime against humanity a frontier [...]
