A new electoral system is on the cards for South Africa, but what has been proposed is, frankly, a mess. The new system will be

With the mounting risk of environmental degradation facing the world, the need for a clean green economy has topped the priority list of reforms. The

While the country digests the reports of the Zondo Commission, detailing how the carcass of the state was carved up under the so-called State Capture

The level of surprise at the insidious, state-capture-enabling nature of the ANC’s cadre deployment policy, surprises me. It was entirely predictable, 25 years ago. In

This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 10 February 1355 – St Scholastica Day riot From the modern vantage

The Zondo commission’s recent reports have provided chapter-and-verse on the fraud and inflated pricing that bedevilled so many of the Gupta-linked procurement contracts entered into

This is the season when the government presents its plans for the year ahead and beyond.  President Cyril Ramaphosa will deliver his annual State of

Amnesty International has produced a travesty of a report, rehashing old antisemitic tropes and falsely denouncing Israel as an apartheid state. It says a lot

When South Africa’s final constitution was up for certification by the Constitutional Court in 1996, the South African Institute of Race Relations warned against the

The ANC and EFF being excluded from a 2024 coalition government would be a great leap forward. Yet this will remain both unlikely and insufficient