Zuma shares ignominy with former US president Donald Trump who, like him, subverted democracy while in office.
- Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
The more President Mnangagwa’s government fails to engage democratically with its own citizens, the more it will negate any prospect of re-engagement with the West.
The problem for the Democratic Alliance is not one of policy. There is real substance in its commitment to substituting racial criteria for overcoming historical disadvantage.
The time is long past that Pretoria’s admonitions of bad behaviour by Zimbabwe’s leaders are backed by a credible threat of sanction and punishment.
Moeketsi Majoro’s installation as Prime Minister is welcome. But it does not guarantee much needed political stability in an era of complex coalition politics.
Power is visibly draining away from Tom Thabane. But, even at 80 years old, he remains a wily operator, and seems determined to cause maximum trouble to secure his immunity from prosecution.
It seems that former president FW De Klerk continues to find it hard to accept that apartheid was a crime against humanity.
Since the demand for resources far outmatches the patronage available, Lesotho’s political arena has become brutally competitive.
The Democratic Alliance’s problems can be traced back to the politicisation of race, which has persisted even after the dawn of democracy in 1994.
South Africa’s parliamentary system would make it difficult to achieve a fusion of parties.
¿En qué lugar del panteón de los líderes nacionalistas africanos que llevaron a sus países a la independencia debemos colocar a Mugabe?
Where should we place Mugabe among the pantheon of African nationalists who led their countries to independence?
The election’s result endorses other evidence that trust in South Africa’s constitutional settlement and its political institutions is steadily declining.
Trump and Zuma seek to sell explanations of their misfortunes to the socially insecure and economically vulnerable. To an alarming extent they succeed.
The current crisis in British politics is significant for countries like South Africa where a change in electoral systems is needed.
Corruption in South Africa became increasingly organised under former President Jacob Zuma.
South Africa needs to make life as uncomfortable as possible for members of Zimbabwe’s government.
Referenda have their place in democracy, but can also be misused.
Polls indicate that South Africans are unlikely to totally abandon the African National Congress.
The ANC has lost so much support among its traditional voters it’s now forced to look beyond them to retain power.
South Africa’s official opposition, the Democratic Alliance needs to face its racial dilemmas.
Southern Africa’s liberation movements have been losing popularity and confronting a crisis of legitimacy.
South Africans can’t afford to let the land debate be reduced to a shouting match.
ANC renewal and the war on corruption is one thing. But transforming the character of the South African political economy is quite another.
Littering in protest is indicative of a discordant society, and a culture of littering can tell us a lot about a society’s ethos.
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