The ANC’s generational rupture: Change choices for new organisational design

The lesson is clear: democracy in Washington’s playbook is not a universal value but a lever, invoked when nations resist economic control, claim authority over their own resources or chart independent destinies

Too often, leadership is seduced by power. The allure of authority, prestige and influence can slowly overwhelm the original motivation to serve people. What begins as a commitment to uplift communities can quietly turn into an obsession with status and control

The case for this institution is not abstract. It is grounded in South Africa’s own policy direction

Prasa’s ‘lawfare’ raises troubling questions about whether South Africa’s legal system is protecting those who expose corruption

Only when leadership becomes coherent, value-driven and courageous will technology fulfil its promise of accelerating service delivery and reducing inequality

Reducing child mortality is possible. What remains is the courage to scale what works and to sustain it. If we are serious about ending child stunting by 2030, then we must act accordingly

TB is strongly associated with poverty. Transmission is facilitated in poorly ventilated, crowded settings such as underground mines, busy workplaces and densely populated urban areas

Like Ramaphosa, he is capable, respected and structurally competent. Unlike Ramaphosa, however, his worldview is even further removed from the ANC’s ideological tradition. Elevating him to leadership would not resolve the party’s contradictions

When institutions lack the capacity, coordination or accountability required to implement such programmes, the distance between constitutional promise and everyday reality inevitably widens

Universities remain among the few institutions in society dedicated to the careful creation and stewardship of knowledge. If they respond to AI primarily through fear and control, they risk undermining the very intellectual curiosity they seek to protect

It is shocking that a post-1994 dispensation, emerging from a colonial-apartheid liberation struggle whose core objective was the return of land, has presided over the increase of informal settlements from 300 to 4000

The division of water into different categories, such as public water and private water, normal flow and surplus water, which existed under the 1956 Water Act, was done away with. All water thereafter had the same status in law. This means that the privatisation of water is prohibited and all South African citizens have equal water rights