Despite its internal and electoral weaknesses, the African National Congress (ANC) still enjoys the mandate to govern from the most recent national elections in 2019. The delicate relationship between internal dynamics...
Jacob Zuma
South African civil unrest: Recognising community interventions in times of crisis
In mid-July, we witnessed extensive looting and violence in South Africa, concentrated in some parts of Gauteng and the eastern KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) provinces. The unrest claimed over 300 lives and thousands of...
Governance matters more than ever for South Africa
Tragic events have recently befallen South Africa - scenes that most of us would like to forget but cannot unsee. Like the riots that broke out in the UK 10 years ago, or the storming of the US Capitol in support of...
Making sense of South Africa’s week of anarchy
Confronting the confusing narratives to better understand South Africa’s quagmire South Africans find themselves confronted with the ugly spectre of rioting and looting that has claimed over 100 lives, and also dealt a...
Zuma’s prison sentence is good news for governance
South Africa’s Constitutional Court decision to sentence former president Jacob Zuma to 15 months in prison for contempt of court is momentous. Amid the incompetence, chaos and corruption that dominates media...
South Africa’s liberation struggle and the inside/outside conundrum
The ANC - a legacy of internal struggle for the throne Forty years ago, the Matola raid (January 1981) resulted in the massacre of 15 African National Congress (ANC) freedom fighters by apartheid forces. Surprisingly,...
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