The governing party convened a meeting at the University of the Western Cape to start a dialogue on coalition government arrangements. The "anyone but the ANC" posture taken by the opposition complex, which has plunged local government into a governance crisis, was a reawakening to the ANC of the leader [...]

Let this rendition start by congratulating Matshela Koko and others for the courage to say, 'We are not what they say we are'. It is a statement loaded with a consciousness of self that will be liberatory to many executives in South Africa who have been silenced by the noise [...]

The South African Constitution is the supreme source of law. It legalises a non-racial, non-sexist, united, and democratic South Africa. It commits the State to recognise the injustices of the past, heal the divisions of that past and establish a society based on democratic values, social justice, and human rights. [...]

THE THRUST OF THIS POST WAS PUBLISHED IN THE SUNDAY TIMES OF 19 NOVEMBER 2023. THIS IS AN UNEDITED VERSION. The thought of a less than 50% performance by all the parties contesting for elections is tantamount to thinking of South Africa in post-ANC-as-governing-party terms. Opinion polls about the 2024 national [...]

"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other", writes Charles Dickens in his celebrated work, A Tale of Two Cities. In articulating disdain for apartheid, a crime against humanity, Capetonians were once again seen united in [...]

The 2023 Rugby World Cup victory by a Siya Kolisi-led South African team will go into history as an event that confirmed how non-racial unity can redefine the essence of being South African. Since the 1995 victory against the All Blacks, South Africanness has been spiralling towards a zero performance [...]

This is the oldest question humanity has asked to illustrate various societal phenomena. It was so acute that it generated a multi-millennia-old proverb: 'There is no smoke without fire'. But then, can there be smoke without fire? To answer this question, let's start with what is smoke? A Google search [...]

In August 2023, South Africa celebrated the 40th anniversary of the United Democratic Front. The UDF was one of the most formidable and impactful mass-based, non-racial, and democratic civil society movements in South Africa. Organised to articulate the correctness of the minimum demands of society as enshrined in the 1955 [...]

The South African Constitution declares that everyone has a right to basic and further education. Without free and compulsory education paid for by the state, society will be vulnerable to an unnatural aristocracy formed by those who afford paid and private education. The desire to have the white race of [...]

Wealth and power, the motive force for most tensions and conflicts affecting humanity, are moving away from their dispossession-determined locations in Africa. The colonial order is giving way to a new African order that is increasingly crafted by a new cohort of self-determined and purpose-driven Africans inspired by the possibility [...]