Among the emerging narratives and takeaways about the upcoming ANC 55th National Conference is the growing distinction between members of the ANC, who are its guardians and those that are its custodians. To keep an organisation under custodianship is not the same as giving it the guardianship [...]
The ANC is in a leadership contest. Leaders are deep inside an election campaign. The contest's theme is the ANC's renewal, rebuilding, and unity. In pursuit of the theme and their leadership ambitions, contesting leaders have, by default, become magnets of one coalition/faction or another inside the ANC. Interesting [...]
In times of political upheavals and uncertainty, few countries have weathered what South Africa has gone through without an entire combat war. Despite our clearly diverse and muted demographic makeup in race, class, and tribal terms, there has always been a way we would choose for the greater good [...]
"We have concluded that whilst there is a prima facie case of corruption against the deputy president, our prospects of success are not strong enough... we are not sure if we have a winnable case. Accordingly, we have decided not to prosecute the deputy president", declared the head of the [...]
"Heritage is an embodiment of a past we wish to take into our future without losing the benefits of a changing present. It defines not only a sense of belonging, but it also makes the past a form of the present and an abstraction of what a future will look [...]
To believe that the 1994 democratic breakthrough dealt with all African Claims (imvo za bantu) but enfranchisement would be a colossal understatement. Economic freedom has been illusory despite the equal opportunities declarations enshrined in the Constitution. As a critical national grievance, restitution of capital, land, in particular, has been [...]
The 55th ANC National Conference is less than thirty days from happening. The in-ANC coalitions battle lines are drawn, branches have made their nomination choices, delegates are known, the venue is soon to be quarantined, and the ANC won't be the same come thanksgiving time. The conference is billed [...]
The ANC is once again getting into succession or leadership battles. The contest for political power within the ANC is in full swing. The contest will continue the despoliation of the ANC’s liberation movement character without introducing a party political alternative. In its conduct of the succession discourse, [...]
Since the advent of South Africa's constitutional democracy, our political system has become more complex. The shift from a rule-by-law to a rule-of-law democratic system meant an inundation of policies to debate and understand by society and the ascending political elite. The information intensity required to govern [...]
To be African and express the National in you has been incubated for the past 110 years by the African National Congress. For a century, the ANC has been an institution of leadership through which African aspirations and imaginations in the political economy, politics, socio-economic livelihood, international relations, and ideation [...]
