Original essays on political economy, historical memory, governance reform, and the social contract. Published here first. Extracts distributed on LinkedIn, Facebook, and X.
A declining defence budget is not merely a military concern — it raises deeper questions about industrial policy, technological sovereignty, and South Africa’s long-term strategic autonomy.
On the eve of Africa Day 2026 — what the inheritance from 1963 demands of us now, written from inside the record of a Home Affairs Minister.
The first entry in a living archive of our liberation elders — a tribute to one of the ANC’s most formidable organic thinkers, on the occasion of his eighty-fourth birthday.
On Walter Sisulu’s 114th birthday — the man who built the movement that built the country. An examination of the organisational genius the ANC cannot afford to forget.
On Wally Serote’s 82nd birthday — the suburb that formed him, the cell that could not hold him, and the literature that has outlasted every name imposed on what was taken.
From the 1946 Mineworkers’ Strike to the unfinished social contract — what the inheritance of organised labour demands of government, business and the labour movement when 57 percent of young South Africans cannot find work.
A reading of O.R. Tambo’s long discipline of preparation — the brotherhood that helped free a nation — and the Republic that 27 April 1994 actually inaugurated, read against the unfinished work of the present.