When President Ramaphosa won the 54th National Conference of the ANC in 2017, and later the 2019 National Elections for him to be sworn in as President of the Republic, many South Africans breathed a sigh of relief. Ramaphosa's NEC recalled Jacob Zuma in early 2018, and one centre of [...]
As early as 2004, when the governing African National Congress received 45% of the Western Cape Provincial votes, few policy analysts, scholars, and pundits in South Africa were waxing lyrical about the stirrings of a coalition politics future in the making. They appreciated the truth of a majority rule system [...]
For a while, the idea of being a member of the ANC was ideationally enterprising for scholars, thinkers, and activists alike. Established by a cohort of mission schools and foreign universities educated BaNtu Black elites, the ANC's point of departure was instructive to the intellectualism that undergirded its entire liberation [...]
In October 2021, on the occasion of the BMF's time to review its leadership and elect new or retain its leaders, I wrote; "The BMF remains one of the most vocal organisations that advocates the 'Black' cause in its area of influence. Naturally, it will become a 'node' of 'interests' and [...]
Once South Africa starts to appreciate the chasm that separates insiders from outsiders in any setting and, more acutely, the inside story of and about the politics of our transition, we will quickly build the bridges that matter for our political order to advance further than expectations of its Constitution. It [...]
When the ANC meets to finalize its go-to-voters message for the 2024 national and provincial elections, the nation will be waiting with the question, 'what will the massage be this time? Polls and surveys indicate a population ready to face the upcoming elections with a resolve to make them yield [...]
A country’s constitution reflects society's emotion about its past and a projection into a future the drafters knew they might not be part of its zenith benefits. This defines the leadership cohort that negotiated the South African Constitution. Their never-again emotion that went into the final text is algorithmic to [...]
As South Africa approaches the 2024 national elections, political tensions are roiling and fomenting instability. Anxious thinkers and business leaders wonder if the two biggest political parties should wait to find common ground and advance South Africa towards a more stable political order. In enduring the realities of inequality, the [...]
The election of President Ramaphosa will be remembered for having led the inclusion of a younger generation of ANC leaders at the centre of the liberation movement’s decision-making structures whilst at the same time being the one who started the domino for the downward spiral of its youth league. Visibly, [...]
For up to ninety-five or so years, the African National Congress has dominated the hegemonic space of what ought to have been the correct arrangements with which the South African society should have long agreed to govern itself. Through its monumental documents, The African Claims, the 1949 Congress League Program [...]
