The 2016 local government elections have come and gone. The results have been released by what is arguably the most efficient elections management agency in the developing world, the IEC. Political analysts and statisticians are now grappling with the implications of the numbers and how these are reflective of the [...]
The election of Jacob Zuma, as President of the ANC in 2007 at its 53rd Conference, remains one of the most openly contested electoral process the ANC has experienced since its banning. His recall as Deputy President of the country, and at a time when the ANC was facing an [...]
The ANC is once again getting into a succession discourse. The contest for political power within the ANC, if you like, its unofficial ‘primaries’ before the 2019 national elections, is in full swing. The contest will continue the despoliation of the ANC’s liberation movement character without introducing in its stead [...]
The ANC’s succession debate has again taken centre stage in the analysis of all manner of discourse in South Africa. The contest for political power is now firmly within the ANC domain. Opposing factions have once again concretised around personalities and not ‘policy positions’ and ‘promises for change’ even within [...]
Freedom celebration is an important aspect of nation building that cannot be left only to annual Union Buildings festivities, but should be deliberately weaved as a national project. The ‘dual’ history of South Africa often characterised as white and black history compounds the quest for a national meaning of freedom. [...]
Freedom celebration is an important aspect of nation building that cannot be left only to annual Union Buildings festivities, but should be deliberately weaved as a national project. The ‘dual’ history of South Africa often characterised as white and black history compounds the quest for a national meaning of freedom. [...]
In one of his seminal speeches Martin Luther King Jnr warns society that “in the end, we will remember not the words (or noises) of our enemies, but the silences of our friends”. The ascendance of Mr Julius Malema to what is arguably the most powerful position to be held [...]
The passing of Nelson Mandela represents the passing of both an era, a consciousness, and a societal epoch. As an era, he represents a generation that refused to be subjugated by another. In his era, the call has always been that humanity was created equal in the eyes of God [...]
The Marikana shooting incident is now part of the annals of post-Apartheid South African history. It represents one of the most graphic interfaces between the need for law and order, and the wish for continued disorder in society. Whilst the police should be held accountable for the hard handed manner [...]
The death of Margaret Thatcher and the shenanigans surrounding it should come as a preview of events to come in South Africa when the passing away of Nelson Mandela is announced. Paraphrasing Jonathan Freedland of the Mail and Guardian we can also say; “after a life in politics, the politics [...]
