On March 18, thirty years ago, more than 68% of white South Africans voted in favor of the abolishment of Apartheid and 'endorsed' the idea of 'freedom' for blacks thereby ushering the dawn of this specific democracy. Hailed by some as a significant day in the History of South Africa, [...]
There is no debate that the voter posture and patterns of subnational government voting represent the first phase of a broader strategy by the core of its support base to seek an arrangement where they are not governed by non-white and in particular Africans. Whilst on paper the [...]
When the 2021 Municipal Elections were finally announced, a new truth about South African politics started to paint itself as a new canvas to contend with. To some, it was a shock and frustration, to others a triumph of the sovereignty of the individual in all matters [...]
Can we say the African National Congress is truly in decline as the once 'authentic' voice of the liberation promise for South Africans? Certainly not. Not if there is a growing confusion of its role as a post-Apartheid political party caught up in the narrow exigencies of state [...]
On the face of it, it might seem innocent that the 'deal' between Ramaphosa and Commissioner Sithole is peripheral to the unfolding succession tensions engulfing the African National Congress in the year of its most consequential elective conference. Outside the purview of many, Sithole is in the turbulent [...]
The invasion of Ukraine marks the end of a World Order many of us only know and believe in. The convulsions that the American-led World Order are experiencing in almost all facets of human life and existence threaten Americans and go to the core of the Americanism with which we [...]
The establishment of South Africa as a non-racial and non-sexist democracy was an artificial creation of a state. As a result, this involved bringing together antagonistic forces whose vision of South Africa required a shared and collective reconciliation with its dispossessor and dispossessed past. The diverse interests and expectations of [...]
In theory, a country like South Africa should possess a range of state power management tools for its success and global competitiveness; a sophisticated leadership cohort and a Cabinet team of long term thinkers and scenario planners, an intelligence service that insulates the country from unscrupulous [...]
The African National Congress is an organisation divided against itself. Since it has become a governing party in 1994, it has been defined by ideological differences on how to deal with economic transformation, tensions of leadership succession after Mandela and beyond, and generally acute contestations on policy direction [...]
For much of the first fifteen years of post-1994 South Africa, the leadership of how its democracy was established captivated the world’s imagination. Other countries looked on enviously as South Africa became the beacon of hope about the possibility of a successful democratic order based on universal principles of [...]
