For the South African post-apartheid political establishment, how they contest political power to remain firmly in their hands seems they must survive narratives every time they approach succession epochs. The 2022 Conference of the ANC was supposed to be a moment of triumph for the Paul-Mashatile-as-a-node establishment. What is now [...]

The past four elections for national and local government (2014, 2016, 2019, and 2024) have communicated voter sentiments about how they feel about those who govern them in all spheres of government. The granularity of details about the growing discontent at those that govern has voter numbers as evidence of [...]

The decline of political engagement in the structures of the ANC at the altar of a politics-for-money culture has impacted the value of being a member of the movement. There was a time in the history of the ANC, being its member attracted prestige because of how sophisticated those who [...]

In his tribute to Essop Pahad, under a hawkish watch of the ANC's most organised formation of elders and veterans outside its Veterans League, the 101 Veterans, Paul Mashatile invoked a Marxist adage to characterise the deeper issues inside his organisation, which are not in our immediate purview.  He said Comrade [...]

It is rare to find a society, political parties, and civil society movements discussing the future of their country's leadership with the incumbent still in charge and pursuing a legally acceptable second term. This rarity is what a society like South Africa needs to project into the future whilst in [...]

The edited version was published in the SundayTimes of 02 July 2023South Africa as a state has been experiencing a steady decline as a reliable and sustainable service delivery system. Whilst its policies have defined 'the what' is to be done aspects of government, its politics have ravaged its implementation [...]

This was developed into a fully-fledged Working Paper, published by the Thinc Foundation Ours has always been a struggle for the creation of a national democratic society. For this noble mission, we are proponents of the National Democratic Revolution that must usher in a national democratic society in all its [...]

At the pinnacle of having successfully transformed South African society to conform to Apartheid, the BJ Voster-led National Party government sought to start the cultural assimilation of 'its subjects' through the introduction of Afrikaans as the medium of instruction. In pursuit of establishing a racial hierarchy which would have permeated [...]

The political ideas characteristic of shallow citizens, politicians, and analysts are those of gossip, prejudice, and shibboleths. On the other hand, political ideas characteristic of candidates to be a leader of society brigade member are facts, truth, impartiality, and being unconventional. What broad pooling of ideas and trailblazing should be about [...]

South Africa's first democratically elected President, Nelson Mandela, jokingly advised that if the new democratic government does to us what the apartheid government did, we must do to it what we did to the apartheid government. The apartheid government ran a parliamentary democracy system. The new democratic government has a [...]