One of the most preventable decisions that have plunged the country into a disaster is the introduction of independent power producers and how the country transitions to that future. While in climate change standards, the decision might have been one of the best, in how it impacts the livelihoods of [...]
Between 1985 and 1989, South Africa was dealing with the reality of having to enter into a political settlement between the governing National Party and the ANC as the then undisputed leader of the global anti-apartheid alliance anchored on the continuous delegitimisation of the State as the trusted custodian [...]
Vectors that will define the upcoming national elections will undoubtedly be energy security, a job-creating growing economy, and a functioning criminal justice system. The 2023 SONA will have failed to grasp the true feelings of society and emergencies in South Africa if it does not address what proposals will [...]
1. Your main assertion is that voter support for the ANC has been in decline, and what you describe as the national opposition complex is at the forefront of the challenge of removing the ANC from its position as a trusted servant with a mandate to serve, lead and govern [...]
South Africa is undergoing a stressful period of load shedding and its attendant down-the-line failings, primarily how it is disrupting electricity-dependent industry sectors. The implications of these disruptions and other public infrastructure failings are redefining how voters will henceforth understand the importance of their voting power. There is, therefore, [...]
South Africa might be entering a new phase of anti-system politics that does not have race and apartheid colonialism as its vector of analysis and existence. Literature on anti-system or Establishment politics reveals that fundamentally, anti-system activists, and ultimately voters, are bred by frustrations with political systems they perceive [...]
In her book Shock Doctrine The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Naomi Klein introduces how conditions for shock therapy as an economic intervention could be created to create a context within which disaster capitalism could thrive. The mooted state of national disaster discussed by the governing African National Congress is [...]
The Democratic Alliance (DA), South Africa's official opposition party, and others are in court over the ANC's cadre deployment policy. Whilst the DAs action is plausible to the extent that it will put into judicial test the correctness or otherwise of a cadre deployment policy in democratic order such [...]
South Africa has experienced unprecedented electricity load shedding since 2018 and has yet to show any hope of a quicker recovery, given its commitments to 'alternative energy sources'. This might go in history as the most energy-vulnerable era of South African life since the dawn of democracy. The reasons for [...]
Over the last few years, in fact, in the previous fifteen years, South Africa experienced a slide in the capacity and capability of the state to meet its executive and constitutional obligations to its citizens. The post-apartheid reconstruction and development component of the democratic order being created has been [...]
