ANC take heed: even big brands die if they abandon their founding values
The brand of South Africa's ruling party, the 104-year-old ANC, is in serious decline. The party needs to act decisively to stop this.
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South Africa’s Jacob Zuma is fast running out of political lives
President Jacob Zuma has been brought to book repeatedly by South Africa's courts. He also faces a rising tide of discontent. One way or another, he seems to be running out of political lives.
Pursuing a 30-year old bailout is sending South Africa on a wild goose chase
South Africa's Public Protector, Busisiwe Mkhwebane has touched on two highly contentious issues: the unresolved bailout for a local bank three decades ago. And the role of the country's Reserve Bank.
Corrupt state owned enterprises lie at the heart of South Africa’s economic woes
Reforming South Africa’s state owned enterprises should start with greater accountability and financial responsibility.
Young South Africans aren’t apathetic, just fed up with formal politics
It's time South Africa stopped stereotyping its young people as being disinterested and morally bankrupt and started engaging them.
The battle for control of South Africa’s state isn’t just about personalities
The misfortunes experienced by Brian Molefe, the CEO of South Africa's power utility Eskom, shows that the battle for the country's public purse is not a one way bet.
It’s cold outside Zuma’s ANC. But there’s little warmth left inside
In the new introduction to his prison memoir South African anti-apartheid stalwart Raymond Suttner uses the word 'betrayal' to explain his break from the ANC.
How ANC presidential elections trump South Africa’s constitution
The internal processes of South Africa's ruling ANC for electing the president is distorted by money, patronage, factionalism and vote-rigging. It negates the democratic legitimacy the party claims.
It’s 30 years since Cuito Cuanavale. How the battle redefined southern Africa
For a military battle whose outcome is still hotly contested 30 years later, the impact was so remarkably clear -- independence for Namibia, peace for Angola and the death knell for apartheid.
Toxic leaders affect companies, and governments. How to deal with them
Organisational psychopathy, generally known as toxic leadership, is common in the private sector. It's emerging more often in the public space too.
Constitutional Court judges face much more than legal questions in Zuma case
South Africa's Constitutional Court has the difficult task of deciding whether MPs can have the protection of a secret ballot when voting whether to fire President Zuma or not.
How President Zuma blew the chance to steal a march on his opponents
President Jacob Zuma's grounds for appeal are surreal. He invokes the meaning of a rule set by the apartheid context he ferociously fought against, to justify his executive action in a democracy.
South African protesters echo a global cry: democracy isn’t making people’s lives better
Protests in South Africa are about more than just service delivery of basic services such as water and electricity. They reflect a wider crisis about the failure to build a more equitable society.
White monopoly capital: good politics, bad sociology, worse economics
The debate about white monopoly capital in post-apartheid South Africa is good for the country's politics but it tends to come with bad sociology.
Zuma’s attack on capital is digging South Africa into a deeper hole
The populism politics adopted by South Africa's ruling party, African National Congress, mask a strategy to deflect attention from the party's policy failures and to hide its many scandals.
No nuclear energy option for South Africa – for now at least
A ruling by a South African court makes it unlikely that the country will see any nuclear development in the foreseeable future.
Court ruling on Zuma’s nuclear deal is a marker of South Africa’s political health
The Cape High Court ruling which declared South Africa's nuclear energy plan as illegal may have put paid President Jacob Zuma's ambitions of clinching the deal while he is still in office.
South Africa must look beyond individuals to solve the current crisis
The framing of the prevailing political protests in South Africa shows too much focus on the role of individuals. This is dangerous in hearkening back to the flawed Great Man Theory.
No need to despair even as the dream of South Africa feels like a nightmare
The promise of Easter, which Christians around the world celebrate, can be likened to the new struggle in South Africa for a new leadership and government that cares about the people.
Craig Williamson: the spy who came in for apartheid
Notorious apartheid spy Craig Williamson's sole interest was in reproducing what he regarded as his birthright – wealth and racial privilege.
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of Public Affairs, Tshwane University of Technology
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Professor of World Politics, SOAS, University of London
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Professor in Political Science, University of South Africa
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Head of Wits School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer, UCT Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Lecturer in the Politics of African Development, University of Leeds
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Associate Professor in Public Law, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor and Head of Department of Political and Conflict Studies, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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Professor in the Wits School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer, African Institute for Financial Markets and Risk Management, University of Cape Town
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