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Mzwandile Manto

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The inability of the public sector to deliver service such
as fixing potholes harms the majority of South Africans. (Leon Sadiki/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

ICJ victory would redeem the ANC – if it shows the same humanity at home

The party won a moral victory when it went to the World Court to take on the US-backed Israel but it must clean up its own house and have the same care for South Africans

(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

It is the ANC that is the threat to its future, not opposition parties

Regardless of how the 2024 elections end, the ruling party must undergo radical political transformation to survive

Late former president Nelson Mandela. (Photo by Gideon Mendel/Corbis via Getty Images)

Madiba and his forgotten legacy of virtue

It is not what we challenge about Madiba’s heritage that is important — it is how we challenge it

Israel-Palestine: Empathy lies in the echoes of history

One legacy of hatred should teach us the dangers of implementing another

Steve Biko’s political thought was rooted in the climate of racism, and at the height of brutal subjugation.

Rethinking Steve Biko’s black consciousness political philosophy post-liberation

Leveraging colour as a means of progress can have a paradoxical effect of self-incarceration

Madiba’s life and words show us that humaneness is the balm our country needs to heal (Trevor Samson/AFP)

ANC needs to find its moral character

The ruling party’s leaders should follow Kant’s maxim: ‘Act as if you would agree that your actions be made universal law

If the ANC rejects the diagnostic and hopefully therapeutic criticism even from its devoted members, it will continue to crumble and fall. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Bring intellectualism back to the ANC, stop navel-gazing

If the ANC rejects the diagnostic and hopefully therapeutic criticism even from its devoted members, it will continue to crumble and fall