The ANC’s national dialogue initiative is a propaganda exercise which other political parties and civil society leaders should counter with workable solutions. Let’s explore why

“Look what’s happening in the north! Look what happens when the blacks take over!” In South Africa, in the 1960s, this is what I heard

World attention is increasingly focused on South Africa. In the vast, rich country of extremes and diversity, human dramas are played off every day. It

The following is the second extract from my book, Rule Breakers: How the 2024 election campaign changed South Africa forever, published by Protea. The first

I was recently pondering the Junior Springboks’ 73-17 thrashing of Australia and the fact that the starting line-up had seven black players, four coloured players

Society is confronted by a multitude of serious global crises. These include regional wars, revolutions, increasing anti-Semitism and Islamism, unprecedented fires, floods and famine, diminishing

Ethnic nationalists who wish to retreat to minority enclaves and oppose immigration are misinformed and rather delusional. “What will it take for minorities to stand

On Tuesday 23 September 2008, Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang convened a press conference. She looked buggered, hungover and depressed. She didn’t break out into

It is still early days in South Africa’s era of coalition politics, with the risk, and the scale, of (unintentional) misinformation and (deliberate) disinformation about

The ANC has not adapted to the reality of its failure to achieve a majority from the voters last year. That alone accounts for much