Terence Corrigan

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,

Forming a Government of National Unity has been hailed as a significant achievement, a herald of the “better angels” of our nature.  The travails around

In my piece following the election, I referred to the Economic Freedom Fighters and uMkhonto weSizwe as “the left”.  I received some pushback on this

Last month’s election delivered South Africa to a vastly different reality from what had existed before. Between this writing and your reading, the circumstances may

I chose to give my talk the title ‘Consolidating an uncertain future’ in deference to the idea of democratic consolidation. This is the process by

I’m writing this on Wednesday, 29 May, after having cast an early morning vote. It went smoothly, and the whole process, from joining the queue