Mkhwanazi Versus Mchunu: The Controversial Role of the Political Killings Task Team in KZN
Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has, contrary to SAPS protocol, been using the media to build his image as a crime-fighting cop, winning public support. However, his recent ...
The blurred lines of justice: Police Leadership Must Come Clean
What is at stake here is not just the credibility of one minister or one commissioner. It is the credibility of the state itself. The South African Police Service ...
Foreign Policy: How the DA's Lobbying Agenda Undermines South Africa's Sovereignty
The DA’s foreign lobbying poses a direct threat to South Africa’s sovereignty by enabling external actors, especially Western governments, to shape domestic outcomes ...
Revolution or Regression: The Impact of Private Sector Control on SA's Developmental State
The state is obsessed with public-private partnerships and is vehemently opposed to public-public partnerships. It can only mean that there are no profits and kickbacks ...
Red Wedding Warfare: How Israel Turned War Into A Spectacle To Conceal The Gaza Genocide
Israeli military aggression toward Iran is applauded, but its sustained violence against Palestinians is ignored and even justified. What we are witnessing is not ...
UN at a Crossroads: Birth Pangs of a New World Order
It is necessary to strive for the birth of a new world order that guarantees all people enjoy the realisation of all the promises made 80 years ago when the UN was ...
Washington Agreement masks complex regional dynamics
What is needed in the DRC is state-building, which the agreement does not address. If its dismal misadventures in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya are anything to go ...
SA's Debt Crisis: A Crippling Embrace of the World Bank
Development has been outsourced to multilateral lenders with no stake in our sovereignty. The borrowing continues, but each loan chips away at our autonomy, our ...
The Legacy of State Capture: ANC's Struggle with Corruption and Trust
Historically, it is in the culture of the ANC to embrace ‘collective responsibility’. It was intriguing when, suddenly, some ANC members (including those in leadership ...
David Dabede Mabuza: A shrewd leader, political strategist
David Dabede Mabuza will remembered as a strategist who knew how to deal with his political opponents and neutralise them. Others will remember him as a shrewd leader ...
'DRC, Rwanda Peace Deal Entrenches Economic Colonialism'
What is being touted as a rescue plan for the Congo could well turn out to be little more than a schematic for daylight robbery, not only of the nation's treasure ...
David Dabede ‘DD’ Mabuza: A Master Tactician Who Navigated SA's Brutal Political Terrain
David Mabuza lived politics as a game of angles and timing. In an environment where loyalty is fleeting and principles are flexible, he showed that adaptability, ...
GNU Friction: DA's Grandstanding an 'Insult' to the Nation
The DA must make a choice. It can be part of building a better South Africa, or it can continue on its current path of obstruction, grandstanding and political sabotage. ...
Transformation Fund: Fixing apartheid-era policy distortion
While the Constitution guides our work in creating a society with equal opportunities, we require a deliberate removal of structural obstacles to draw more people ...
NATO’s Defence Spending: Washington’s Political Will Trumps Brussels’ Consensus Diplomacy
By meeting Trump’s demands, European leaders also give him political cover to maintain U. S. support for Ukraine’s war effort. In this light, the 5% commitment becomes ...
Military Vets Database Crisis: A Betrayal of Liberation Soldiers
South Africa’s soul is on trial. A nation’s integrity is measured by how it honours those who fought for its freedom, and by this standard, we are failing. The Military ...
Africa in need of a robust strategy to mitigate conflicts
It would be foolhardy to believe that the temporary truce between Israel and Iran will hold indefinitely. It is important that Africa prepares for a worst-case scenario ...
How Africa can foster sustainable diplomacy amidst global trade tensions
Internationalism and solidarity should still be a core feature of foreign policy while also being smart in navigating partnerships with a diverse range of nations ...
ANC's 'better life for all' mantra remains a pipedream
The ANC has led South Africa during the first six administrations since 1994. As such, it had enough time to implement the promises of the Freedom Charter, says ...