Lessons from China's Eight-Point Decision for Africa's Anti-Graft Efforts
For African nations seeking to build capable, accountable, and trusted institutions, China’s experience offers not a blueprint to copy, but a powerful example of ...
Ramaphosa's NDPP panel: Smoke and mirrors or genuine reform?
The NPA’s reluctance to consider preferring charges against President Ramaphosa arising out of Phala Phala bolsters the argument that the current process is unlikely ...
Reflecting on Black Wednesday: The Need for Caution in Media Regulation
Given the long road that the country has travelled and given the deep wounds inflicted by the apartheid state, any decision to regulate the media should be handled ...
Ruto's Haiti Intervention: A Costly Misstep for Kenya
Ruto's Haiti gamble was a no-win for Kenya. For a country battling with a poorly functioning economy, rising debt, and inadequate service delivery, the Haiti exercise ...
A Theatre of Chaos as Students Lose Moral Compass
The crisis at Fort Hare is therefore a mirror reflecting a much broader national problem. It reveals the moral exhaustion of a society that has lost its sense of ...
Is Mkhwanazi a Reformer or a Risk to Institutional Integrity in South Africa?
The larger question now hanging over Lt-Gen. Mkhwanazi’s interventions concerns his endgame. His allegations have sparked vital debates and prompted formal investigations. ...
Black Wednesday: The Impact of SANEF's Exceptionalism on Journalism and Democracy
To invoke Black Wednesday today is not nostalgia; it is moral accounting. It demands that the journalism which once confronted tyranny rediscover its conscience, ...
Understanding Gen Z Protests in the Context of Africa’s G20 Year
The rise of Gen Z protests across Africa amidst the backdrop of the G20 summit are making young voices heard. They are challenging the status quo and demand a re-evaluation ...
'It is now time for the Palestinians to speak as one'
A united Palestinian front would give substance to international solidarity, converting sympathy into strength and transforming the grief of generations into the ...
Jury Out on Whether MPs will Act Without Fear or Favour
The temptation would be for Members of Parliament to defend their own, not to serve the people of South Africa but for political expediency, says the writer.
Breaking Ideological Shackles Key to United for Change Survival
The coming years will test whether United For Change can transcend rhetoric and symbolism to become a genuine vehicle of national renewal, or whether it too will ...
Mkhwanazi and the Traoré Effect: Reigniting SA's Quest for Ethical Leadership
South Africa now stands at a crossroads. On one path lies the continuation of post-liberation decay, a slow-motion collapse of state institutions into clientelism ...
Africa's Gen Z Movement Throws Down Gauntlet to Political Elites
African youth are rising against flawed leadership and demanding accountability. This article explores the recent wave of protests across Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco, ...
ANC's Economic Plan: Ramaphosa Still Dancing to the Tune of Capital
The ten-point plan now being offered reads less like a fresh vision and more like a familiar set of promises that still leaves the country dancing to the tune of ...
Tembisa Hospital Graft a Damning Indictment on 'Captured' ANC
The SIU’s findings were not unforeseeable; they were the outcome of captured procurement systems and institutional neglect. For leaders to act “shocked” is not only ...
Revising Trump's 20-Point Plan: A Decolonised Approach to Palestinian Sovereignty
A revised version of the Trump plan for an end of the war in Gaza and the occupation of the West Bank. This is the moment for honesty, global resolve, and moral ...
Road to Peace: A Slippery Mountain to Climb for the DRC
while the UN has been supporting the DRC through MONUSCO (UN Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the DRC) and the office of the Special Envoy for the Great Lakes, ...
Can the Development Agenda and Multilateralism be Saved?
The UN and its peacekeeping capacity have been found wanting as the superpower hierarchy in the world today determines war, even though they all have signed the ...
Mbeki's Renewal Call: A Race Against Time for Ethical Leadership
Former President Thabo Mbeki's urgent call for an ANC renewal conference highlights the party's struggle with ethical leadership and declining support. As the ANC ...