The secret about political transitions is that they work when the interests of the outgoing leadership and those of the incoming do not seem to conflict. While there is, in the eyes of the public, a semblance of an amicable agreement interior to the political space, but the [...]
The African National Congress is two months away from its electoral conference. The potential far-reaching policy implications to South Africa and the sub-continent is greater. Although it is complex to predict the ultimate outcome at this stage, there are clear indications of what is at stake beyond the rhetoric [...]
When society expects turkeys to vote for Christmas and go further to appoint turkeys to be the elections authority, you know that society has lost its bearings, and all that holds its wheels is disintegrating. Such is of an organization which believes it has partners in the then enemy camp [...]
The excitement at the uncharacteristic wholesale replacement of a Ramaphosa-era inaugural ESKOM board with a new and mid-political-first term must be welcomed with caution and more profound questions. While its timing looks like a response to societal calls for change at ESKOM, the fundamental question is 'to what [...]
Nelson Mandela declared, " the time comes in the life of any nation when there remain only two choices – submit or fight. That time has now come in South Africa. We shall not submit, and we have no choice but to hit back by all means in [...]
In 2016 at a provincial conference of the South African Democratic Teachers Union, delegates erupted into a song that would define President Cyril Ramaphosa's march to Luthuli House in 2017. The song called him to 'phakama as the time had come for him to lead'. Symbolic to the [...]
On 11 February 1990, South Africa, and the world witnessed one of the most epochal events in human history, the release of Nelson Mandela from prison. This was the most symbolic of acts by the then apartheid state that they were committed to the irreversibility of a [...]
The South African politics and political analysis academic media complex is faced with the intricate question of what would constitute a centre of politics. For a while, the battle to dislodge the ANC as the context of all political contexts, given its historical advantage of successfully leading the [...]
It was not just a British Royal Funeral; it was the laying to rest of the noblest of the order of the gutter. The United Kingdom buried its longest-serving monarch as it introduced into the posterity of that power, King Charles III, as the Supreme Defender of The [...]
South Africa has for a while been grappling with how to make in-ANC political trends to be just about the ANC. The battle to discount the ANC as the context of all contexts has been ongoing in hegemonic spaces, almost equal to the establishment of liberal [...]
