Hermann Pretorius

Dr Brigalia Bam, respected writer, activist, and member of the National Dialogue’s Eminent Persons Group, recently reflected that “(w)e never realised that 30 years will

For most of the past decade, South Africa’s national debate has been trapped in a dangerously comforting myth: that state capture and corruption were the

Political parties that dominate a society for decades tend to assume their grip will last indefinitely. Yet history shows how quickly power can crumble. In

The ANC is broke. Not cash-strapped, not merely struggling, but structurally bankrupt. Salaries go unpaid and unpaid debts pile up. Yet the party now faces

I was opposed to the formation of the GNU. In fact, in the post-election weeks of June 2024, I lobbied quite aggressively against the DA

The vulnerability of joblessness manifests in ways most of us can hardly imagine. In South Africa, unemployment is most often discussed through statistics and economic

From as early as the 1980s, the ANC has exhibited a reflex of treating any broad coalition or unity front as an extension of itself,

The DA is right to oppose Black Economic Empowerment. The announcement earlier this week by Federal Leader John Steenhuisen that the GNU’s second party has

The following is the second extract from my book, Rule Breakers: How the 2024 election campaign changed South Africa forever, published by Protea. The first

The following is an extract from my book, Rule Breakers: How the 2024 election campaign changed South Africa forever, published by Protea, in which I