Published in the BusinessDay of 23 April 2025 The ensemble that the tariff wars have lurched global trade into chaos might have rewritten how smart democracies should deal with geopolitics. The new foreign policy theorems of transactional international relations are starting to procure private C-suites as the global trade-facing brigades for [...]

For over a century, the ANC has been the central force in South African politics, a dominance that extended to thirty years of government control following the 1994 non-racial elections. Despite a few political parties challenging their absolute power, the ANC remained the nexus of political influence. However, its internal succession [...]

 Since the SACP announced that it has decided to contest the local government elections independently of the ANC, there has never been a public discourse on what this means for the tripartite alliance. The ANC is on record as the force of the left. Its core political rhetoric is still [...]

 This was published in the Sunday Times, 13 April 2025.South Africa should not take lightly the idea that no one party has absolute power to govern. It is disruptive to historically established strategic networks and new ones. Nodes of influence have lost significant ground over several aspects of South Africa's [...]

This was published in the TimesLive 10 April 2025The GNU Budget debacle will go down in history, arguably alongside the JZ stretching of the criminal justice system, as a watershed moment that demonstrates to what lengths the RSA constitutional order can go to make its democratic character a reality.  The coalition [...]

Since the 1994 democratic breakthrough, the ANC has been living a life of a political party contesting for state power, at almost any cost and that of a liberation movement working to transform South Africa and build a more equal society. It lived as the governing party for most of [...]

The consensus of a liberated South Africa is under stress, and a new paradigm of freedom is taking center stage. Societal interests are increasingly about the impact of public policy on the quality of life that accrues. Generational expectations have changed. New expressions of active diversities are reconfiguring the nature [...]

The two South African Nationalist movements, the African National Congress and the National Party, established a year apart in 1912 and 1913, have been the dominant players in defining the anti-colonial struggles that unfolded from the beginning of a constitutional state in 1910 until the ultimate non-racialisation of South Africa’s [...]

 This was published in TimesLive 02 April 2025, headlined: Tipping point: the uncomfortable truth draws near.The end of post-liberation hegemonic politics is with us. Society is preoccupied with a search for a stable political order, and what we have is deteriorating. The post-May 2024 convulsions have created a desire for [...]