This was published in the Sunday Times of 21 August 2024 under the headline: The NDR-GNU PARADOX IS THE NEW BATTLE. Does the NDR still have one centre, or is it still being pursued? Have we moved into a world with one NDR objective being pursued by multiple processes (of struggle) [...]
Generally, the rise of parties like MKP and the EFF is the direct consequence of the loosening of the bond between voters and the representatives they elect, and the increasing perception that the governing party, and lately it will be the GNU, serve a narrow elite and capital interests.Unfortunately, no [...]
As we describe the nature of political opposition developing around, within, and out of us, we should appreciate that our character as an organisation will have to change as an outcome of the renewal journey we have embarked upon. A decision to renew an organisation is complete if it runs [...]
This was published in the Sunday Times on 18 August 2024 under the title "Recalibrating the templates of economic dominance."The need to manage the risk that the GNU is the standard defining the ANC renewal is urgent. The inconvenient truth is that the forces that make the rand economy move [...]
This was published in the TimesLive on 15 August 2024.When a society is at a standstill, unable to find the best path to unlock its potential, it often repeats what it already knows. This results in a discourse about the future confined by the 'ideation prisons' of the past, where [...]
One of the Government of National Unity's fundamental deliverables is rebuilding a capable and meritorious public service. In this area, the GNU will generate scripts or scenarios to recalibrate how service delivery will become a feature of governing RSA. As a result, concepts and labels, some with deep ideological intentions [...]
This was published in the TimesLive under the title "ANC, beware, the opposition complex is mastering the takeover of surface politics" on 08 August 2024.With the devastating performance of less than 50% from the 2024 national and provincial elections barely in the rearview mirror, the local government electioneering has already [...]
This was published in the Sunday Times on 04 August 2024 under the headline "Zuma's expulsion from the ANC a risky move."The centrality of Jacob Zuma in the disintegration of the ANC is an area of significant impact that RSA thinkers still need to fully grasp. Zuma has been branded [...]
In 24 months, South Africa will face the Local Government elections to constitute the 7th Municipal Administration in its municipal jurisdictions. Local government elections give us municipal ward-based reaction feedback on the impact of statewide plans on households. Society engages with and experiences government through municipal government. This makes 2026 [...]
All those who have been members of the ANC, current members, and activists who, in one instance or another, have had a relationship with programs of the ANC would know it is a movement, worldview, paradigm, and a collective psyche about politics. It is not only a convergence of social [...]
