The edited version published in TimesLive on 14 July 2024 was titled "The GNU is reshaping the dynamics between political parties."It is almost two months since the May 29 National and Provincial elections gave South Africa a less than 50% outcome by any political party. There is no absolute majority [...]
Published in the TimesLife on 11 July 2024 under the caption "ANC has graduated into a partner and ideological sweetheart of the DA".The emerging political landscape in South Africa redefines how political adversaries compete for voters' hearts, souls, and minds. From the moment the ANC succeeded in chiselling its monumental [...]
The competitiveness of nations has been measured on several matrices, with economic growth and development as the core measure. This is crucial as it directly impacts society’s quality of life. Nations have added new variables to these matrices, some of which have tracked and benchmarked indices to create acceptable thresholds [...]
Published in The Sunday Times 07 July 2024, captioned "The sprouts of reactionary nationalism."When Tintswalo turns sixty and thinks of the moment that marked the historic point of departure of our democratic order, the 2024 National Elections will loom large. The moment when the liberation movement and its allies faced [...]
The concept of political power has been undergoing revisions since the second half of the 1900s. How people agreed on the arrangements to govern each other started to reflect a growing assertiveness of society wanting to claim ownership of political power exercised on their behalf. As these bold demands by [...]
South Africans are on the brink of a pivotal event: the commencement of a National Dialogue. This process, set to begin in a few months, is a momentous occasion in RSA history, thirty years after the negotiations that led to the 1994 democratic breakthrough. The urgency of this dialogue is [...]
This was published in TimesLive on 02 July 2024 Establishing the GNU's national executive authority with the President at its helm is the tip of the iceberg our politics must navigate in the next five years or more. The facts are that South Africa has multiple executive authority centres with political [...]
This was published in the Sunday Times on 02 June 2024As the ink on the ballot papers dries, South Africa stands at a pivotal moment, grappling with fundamental questions. The Parliament is in suspense, with the governing party falling short of the required 50% threshold. It has struggled to secure [...]
The puzzling question about South Africa's construction of a government of national unity is: if the DA evolved into an opposition juggernaut it has become through competition for political hegemony with the ANC, will it ever be able to cooperate with it? With a 22% minority vote, the DA's hegemonic [...]
This was published in the Business Day 26 June 2020South Africa is entering an intensive phase of coalition government. A lot that should be reset must be foregrounded. Public Service reform must take advantage of this policy boom cycle. Electoral majority governing partyism choked reforms that could have moved the [...]
