Published on the 25th of February 2024 on the Sunday TimesSouth Africa codified the arrangements with which society would govern itself for the first time into a Constitution in 1910. RSA constitutionalism has always been about creating political stability and policy certainty for the survival of its economy. During colonial [...]
If stadium filling is an indicator of voter support for political parties, the battle is thus far between the ANC and the EFF. The EFF filled the Calabash and Moses Mabhida, and the ANC filled Mbombela and Moses Mabhida. Both are promising siyangqoba rallies to confirm who has a greater [...]
Published in the Sunday Times on 18 February 2024.In times of political upheavals and uncertainty, few countries have weathered what South Africa has gone through. Despite our relatively small GDP per capita compared to economies we would diplomatically take on global issues, it has always been the greater good for [...]
Since the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world has been suffering from the loneliness of the 'us' and 'them' syndrome, which characterised much of the 19th Century after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. In South Africa, this has played itself with race [...]
This was published in the Sunday Times of 14 February 2024In a quest to give the successes of the governing ANC a face, President Ramaphosa introduced Tintswalo to make its thirty-year reign more real. Tintswalo is not the ANC's election campaign mascot. She represents a human form of the ANC's [...]
As the thirtieth anniversary of South Africa's non-racial and non-sexist democracy fizzles and the fiftieth beaconing, pursuing a human rights-based rule of law by erstwhile revolutionaries will create a new tidal wave of citizen-state relationships, particularly the understanding of the rule of law. Essential public questions include how to accept [...]
The idea of a one-party majority governing party might have run its last race in the sixth administration of South Africa. Majority rule might henceforth be an outcome of a consensus of the political elite coming together as minorities to create a governing majority threshold. South Africa might be experiencing [...]
Metaphors and parables are traditional methods of teaching or explaining in the African education system. Supported by storytelling and symbols, metaphors have provided sieves of indigenous scholarship and African civilisations for centuries. The intellectual resilience of African wisdom cues and philosophy-endowed idiomatic expressions have served as repositories of community values and [...]
Before the 16 December 2024 announcement by Jacob Zuma, it seemed as if the vision of having a South Africa governed by a funded consensus was on track. There was an implicit understanding that a coalition of the ANC and the DA would be the political silver bullet to the [...]
As South Africa's political parties intensify their election campaigns and the prospect of a less than 50% performance by any of them is inevitable, the unfolding debate is whether we need a GNU or pure coalition government. A coalition government would mean a majority of minorities with less political legitimacy, [...]
