Original essays on political economy, historical memory, governance reform, and the social contract. Published here first. Extracts distributed on LinkedIn, Facebook, and X.
On World Refugee Day, Dr Malusi Gigaba and Dr Omano Edigheji follow the trade, energy and people that bind South Africa to the continent — and weigh what isolation would actually cost.
On Youth Day, fifty years after Soweto — the firebrand who led a generation from the streets toward the state.
Weighing the worth of the sacrifice — for the eight men and their families, for the country, and for the continent.
The colonial lines authorised at Berlin in 1885 are now Africa’s to govern.
On the first anniversary of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s death — an unanswered institutional question.
Industrial policy, technological sovereignty, and South Africa’s long-term strategic autonomy.
What the inheritance from 1963 demands of us now, written from inside the record.
A tribute to one of the ANC’s most formidable organic thinkers, on his eighty-fourth birthday.
On the organisational genius behind the movement, and the institutional discipline the ANC cannot afford to forget.
On Mongane Wally Serote — the poet of the struggle, and the conscience his work still demands of those who serve.
From the 1946 Mineworkers' Strike to 57% youth unemployment — Workers' Day is the anniversary of a demand still being made.
The man who held the ANC together through thirty years of exile — and who died without ever casting a vote.
South Africa just took a two-year seat on the AU Peace and Security Council — and why it lands in the Shoprite queue.
The address that kept the country from burning, and the reconciliation that arrived from only one side.
Two women the apartheid state tried, and failed, to erase — the record of resistance and the record of harm, held together.
The pass laws, Sobukwe's campaign, 1,344 rounds — and the Constitution later signed where the bullets fell.
Ghana, Tunisia and Mauritius — and the question Nkrumah left open: free toward what?
On Miriam Makeba's birthday — the exiled artists who did not support the struggle from the side, but fought from the stage.
Imperial arrogance read as the thrashing of a waning power — and the case for a more just, multipolar order.
The Builder, the Doctor and the Prof — Motsuenyane, Motlana and Sobukwe, and the one struggle fought on three fronts.
Mandela to Ramaphosa — five records read for the lesson the next president must synthesise.
Davos 2026, and why Africa's strength is collective relevance — a negotiating caucus, not a collection of margins.
Across 114 years the youth did the practical work of survival — and youth economic agency must now build the renewal.
The scorecard facts, the history of state-engineered Afrikaner upliftment, and the case for reform over repeal.
Nyerere the Teacher, Machel the Commander, Tambo the Diplomat — and the design manual their lives leave behind.
Remembering Nyambose — friend, comrade, historian and public servant, across decades of struggle and laughter.
How Botswana turned diamonds into development — and the lessons South Africa keeps seeking abroad that wait just across the Limpopo.
The road to independence, the dream of a united Africa, and why 'authoritarian' so often served external interests.
Defending the inheritance of democracy, or letting the heritage of separatism resurface in new clothes?
South Africa's long game to 2063 — a phased plan built on functioning institutions and delivery citizens can see.
Why the Fourth Industrial Revolution still matters in the age of AI — and why Africa must shape its own digital future.