Terence Corrigan

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

The prospect of the African National Congress (ANC) losing its majority has caused much speculation about its post-election government.  South Africa is on the cusp

Signing the National Health Insurance Bill into law, Cyril Ramaphosa dramatically announced that he had found the pen he was looking for earlier in the

There is a great deal of nostalgia around former President Thabo Mbeki. For millions of South Africans, he embodies post-transition South Africa’s good years. Polling

About a year ago, I wrote a review of a book entitled ‘In the Name of the People: How Populism is Rewiring the World’. A

I was raised in Natal (as it was then), a province regarded in the context of the segregated politics of the time as different. Its