Terence Corrigan

In a recent column in the Financial Times, Ruchir Sharma discussed what has been referred to as “the rise of the rest”:  the rapid development

With the 2024 elections, South Africa entered what promises to be a new phase in its politics. The loss of the ANC’s absolute majority has

In its short existence, the MK party has not been shy about courting controversy. It represents, in essence, a resentful, exclusionary brand of politics whose

Last week, I wrote about competing conceptions of citizenship, and how this was expressed in the recent case of Chidimma Adetshina and her participation (or

I probably wouldn’t have known the Miss SA pageant was happening – just not my thing – had it not been for the noise around

Some years back, the accompanying photo did the rounds on Facebook – an image of a grotesquely oversized puff adder, captured or killed somewhere in

President Cyril Ramaphosa and his detractors in the so-called “Progressive Caucus” sit on opposite sides of the parliamentary aisle, glaring at each other, even though

Gayton McKenzie is a man able to stir strong emotions. According to perspective, he’s a strongman, a populist, a gangster, a xenophobe, an ethno-nationalist, or

I’ve made the point several times that while the Government of National Unity option was not my first choice, now that it’s a reality, I

Anyone thinking that making the multi-party government work would be simple, would have been disabused by the events of the past few weeks. Leaked correspondence,