In August 2025, I was invited to participate in the eNCA TV programme called We the People, focusing on the topic “GNU: A curse or a blessing”, moderated by Dan Moyane. The political parties were represented by Hope Papo (ANC), Mzwanele Manyi (MKP), Karabo Khakhau...
On Monday, 28 December 2025, I stood over the coffin of a young man in the courtyard of his home. At the grave site, I watched his ailing mother in a wheelchair and his teary young children dropping flowers into the grave, with searing pain written all over their...
The 2025 G20 Leaders’ Declaration is ambitious, wide-ranging and, in parts, impressively detailed. It tackles climate finance, illicit financial flows, digital infrastructure, food security, AI governance and debt sustainability. Yet, after combing through the 30-page...
Whenever I think of the rampant plundering of South Africa’s public resources, a childhood story comes to mind. When I grew up in Port Alfred, there was a Reverend Maguma who had a shop. On evenings and weekends, his sons manned the shop because he was running his...
Greg Mills, in his book Why States Recover, illustrates that the key reason behind economic failure is politics: “Today, the bulk of the world’s poor—totalling 1.1 billion of the planet’s seven billion people—live in a failed or failing state,” he states. The...
Our political leadership could learn a lot about embodied, empathetic and compassionate leadership from a vlog by the dynamic young musician, Zintle Kwaaiman. In it, Kwaaiman cries, deeply moved by witnessing the plight of people affected by abject poverty in a place...
The idea of “peace through strength” is dominating the spotlight, as British Prime Minister Keir Starmer recently said any peace deal between Russia and Ukraine “must be backed by strength” – that is, Europe throwing its full weight behind Ukraine. US Defence...
President Thabo Mbeki recently shared a story which has relevance to the current Government of National Unity (GNU) ructions. He said his mother told him that in the olden days, the African practice of ilobola (dowry) between the families of two people who wanted to...
Theo Barclay, a London-based barrister, wrote that “the first rule of politics is, never resign” based on the understanding that, as UK parliamentary blogger Dr Emma Peplow put it, “resigning your post in government has long been the unhappy minister’s weapon of last...
In a general election where South African voters participated at lower rates than ever before, those who cast their ballot primarily put forward five political parties. These include the African National Congress, the Democratic Alliance, the uMkhonto WeSizwe Party,...
In August 2025, I was invited to participate in the eNCA TV programme called We the People, focusing on the topic “GNU: A curse or a blessing”, moderated by Dan Moyane. The political parties were represented by Hope Papo (ANC), Mzwanele Manyi (MKP), Karabo Khakhau...
On Monday, 28 December 2025, I stood over the coffin of a young man in the courtyard of his home. At the grave site, I watched his ailing mother in a wheelchair and his teary young children dropping flowers into the grave, with searing pain written all over their...
The 2025 G20 Leaders’ Declaration is ambitious, wide-ranging and, in parts, impressively detailed. It tackles climate finance, illicit financial flows, digital infrastructure, food security, AI governance and debt sustainability. Yet, after combing through the 30-page...
Whenever I think of the rampant plundering of South Africa’s public resources, a childhood story comes to mind. When I grew up in Port Alfred, there was a Reverend Maguma who had a shop. On evenings and weekends, his sons manned the shop because he was running his...
Greg Mills, in his book Why States Recover, illustrates that the key reason behind economic failure is politics: “Today, the bulk of the world’s poor—totalling 1.1 billion of the planet’s seven billion people—live in a failed or failing state,” he states. The...
Our political leadership could learn a lot about embodied, empathetic and compassionate leadership from a vlog by the dynamic young musician, Zintle Kwaaiman. In it, Kwaaiman cries, deeply moved by witnessing the plight of people affected by abject poverty in a place...
The idea of “peace through strength” is dominating the spotlight, as British Prime Minister Keir Starmer recently said any peace deal between Russia and Ukraine “must be backed by strength” – that is, Europe throwing its full weight behind Ukraine. US Defence...
President Thabo Mbeki recently shared a story which has relevance to the current Government of National Unity (GNU) ructions. He said his mother told him that in the olden days, the African practice of ilobola (dowry) between the families of two people who wanted to...
Theo Barclay, a London-based barrister, wrote that “the first rule of politics is, never resign” based on the understanding that, as UK parliamentary blogger Dr Emma Peplow put it, “resigning your post in government has long been the unhappy minister’s weapon of last...
In a general election where South African voters participated at lower rates than ever before, those who cast their ballot primarily put forward five political parties. These include the African National Congress, the Democratic Alliance, the uMkhonto WeSizwe Party,...