Original essays on political economy, historical memory, governance reform, and the social contract. Published here first. Extracts distributed on LinkedIn, Facebook, and X.
On Walter Sisulu’s 114th birthday — a reading of the methodologist who made liberation possible, the builder behind every celebrated leader, and the function the ANC has lost and must recover.
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.
On the 1946 African Mineworkers’ Strike and what it settled about the nature of labour. Work is not a gift extended by those who employ — it is a right claimed through organised resistance.
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.