On the face of it, it might seem innocent that the 'deal' between Ramaphosa and Commissioner Sithole is peripheral to the unfolding succession tensions engulfing the African National Congress in the year of its most consequential elective conference. Outside the purview of many, Sithole is in the turbulent [...]

The invasion of Ukraine marks the end of a World Order many of us only know and believe in. The convulsions that the American-led World Order are experiencing in almost all facets of human life and existence threaten Americans and go to the core of the Americanism with which we [...]

The establishment of South Africa as a non-racial and non-sexist democracy was an artificial creation of a state. As a result, this involved bringing together antagonistic forces whose vision of South Africa required a shared and collective reconciliation with its dispossessor and dispossessed past. The diverse interests and expectations of [...]

         In theory, a country like South Africa should possess a range of state power management tools for its success and global competitiveness; a sophisticated leadership cohort and a Cabinet team of long term thinkers and scenario planners, an intelligence service that insulates the country from unscrupulous [...]

      The African National Congress is an organisation divided against itself. Since it has become a governing party in 1994, it has been defined by ideological differences on how to deal with economic transformation, tensions of leadership succession after Mandela and beyond, and generally acute contestations on policy direction [...]

   For much of the first fifteen years of post-1994 South Africa, the leadership of how its democracy was established captivated the world’s imagination. Other countries looked on enviously as South Africa became the beacon of hope about the possibility of a successful democratic order based on universal principles of [...]

     For almost three decades since the unbanning of the ANC and the release of its foremost branded leader, Nelson Mandela, the ANC-as-leader-of-society has had a characterization of it being an indispensable institution of leadership with little to no competitor in determining to content of South Africa's transformation agenda. [...]

 In his rendition that 'transition to a non-ANC government will be chaotic', Tembe raises the possibility of a national coalition government taking over the management of state affairs, come 2024. ( https://www.kunjalod.co.za/2022/01/south-africas-transition-to-non-anc.html?m=1). He paints, and instructed by recent voter behaviour, a scenario where the strategic provinces of Gauteng, Western Cape and Kwa [...]

 It is not hard to understand why ANC members dream of a future defined by a commitment to its policies rather than personalities that lead or should lead it. As the succession battles continue to grow, and as extreme incidents of factionalism become more frequent and harmful, the current efforts [...]

    The 2017 in-ANC elections outcome, to date the most marginal  post-1994 or as a governing party, changed how the ANC relates to and with its members, policies, and the society it once had a legitimate claim to being its leader. The outcome has sharpened the use of words such as [...]