As the year winds down, and with it emotional and intellectual energy, it is important not to forget that politics and governance continues apace. Indeed,

Miss South Africa, Lalela Mswane, is being bullied for nakedly partisan political purposes, and on grounds that aren’t supported by the facts. Good on her

For South Africa in 2022 the overriding force in politics will be the continued decline of the ANC. The signs of demise are everywhere – achieving

My great grandfather arrived in the Transkei in 1862 and built a mission station near the town we now know as Tsolo. But there was

After its limited success in the recent municipal elections, the Democratic Alliance (DA) faces three main enemies. They are the communications media, the African National

The interests of the ANC’s top leaders and those in line to succeed them now diverge sharply. This should make political and economic reforms less

Knee-jerk bans on travel to and from southern Africa, sparked by fears of the new Omicron variant of the virus that causes Covid-19, run against

André de Ruyter, CEO of Eskom since January 2020, is being unjustly blamed and wrongly praised. It is quite absurd to blame him for the

Few recent statements have more clearly illuminated the crippling delusion at the heart of the ANC’s political project than former President Thabo Mbeki’s characterisation of

The recent local government elections resulted in a number of watershed moments for South African politics, notably the decline of the ANC’s share of the