Published in the Sunday Times 09 April 2024The saga around the ultimate charging of South Africa's chief lawmaker might indicate that the governing party is not only shedding its old skin and staying the same but metamorphosing into a creature we are poised to encounter beyond May 29, 2024. Notwithstanding [...]

This is a speech delivered by DPSA Minister Richard M Baloyi at an anti-corruption summit at the Sandton Convention Center in Johannesburg. The CEO of the Thinc Foundation was then Special Advisor to the Minister. In the light of corruption rearing its head to higher levels, as it was then, we [...]

Published in the Sunday Time on 07 April 2024.. "Gauteng takes provincial government to new heights.A common topic of discussion amongst South Africa's cognitive elites and analysts is the improbability of a more than 50% performance by one political party in the 2024 national and provincial elections, and some say [...]

An election legitimacy calamity might be unfolding in South Africa. The IEC's decision to uphold Jacob Zuma's objection to being on the MK Party list, which is based on the facts and the applicable law, might be throwing a cat among pigeons. The basis of the decision is the contempt [...]

 Officially, the SAA transaction to establish the first post-apartheid Black-Owned aviation company with the most global, lucrative, and Mandela goodwill dividend landing rights and routes is off the table. The opportunity to demonstrate the liberation promise of black ownership of the commanding heights of the South African economy as private [...]

South Africa is entering the intensive phases of its election season. The ultimate prize of politics, government, is at stake. The outcomes of elections have constantly reconfigured social and political networks. Depending on the reach, strength, and resilience of the ruling class or establishment, the matrices of power in a [...]

Published in the Sunday Times on 17 March 2024In the middle of an impressive record of decisiveness in implementing what the governing ANC called renewal through weeding out characters responsible for putting its integrity and standing into disrepute, two personalities of the ANC emerge. The pursuit of integrity as a [...]

This article was published on Business Day, 07 March 2024. It was headlined 'Those in power continually redefine the barriers to entry'Rodger Jardine's Change Starts Now (CSN) decision to withdraw from the race echoes more of what will come. South Africa's political order has settled on being driven by political [...]

 Published on the Sunday Times 10 March 2024A frontier is a transition zone where explorers and settlers arrive. It is the region at the edge of a settled area. It characterises the relationship between those settling and the indigenous people found in the area you are settling. The contestation for [...]

The edited version was published in the Sunday Times on 03 March 2024 and headlined, "The public service should be free of party-political interests."The election of President Ramaphosa as the fourteenth President of the ANC and the fifth President of the republic was with a promise of a new dawn. [...]