Soft Power and the Unfinished Revolution: Why South Africa and Burkina Faso Signal Different Futures
South Africa’s unfinished revolution contrasts sharply with Burkina Faso’s political transformation. What does this reveal about soft power, BRICS diplomacy...
Mosiuoa “Terror” Lekota: The Passing of a Struggle Generation
The death of Mosiuoa “Terror” Lekota at the age of 77 marks the passing of another figure from the generation...
Donor Power, Elite Media, & Swemmer’s Push Against the Mbenenge Ruling
Gillian Schutte offers an analysis of how donor-funded legal NGOs and elite media commentary shaped pressure around the Mbenenge ruling,...
The Untouchable Humanitarian: Rethinking Imtiaz Sooliman’s Power, Politics and Shadow Networks
By Sipho Singiswa Sipho Singiswa’s article interrogates the power, politics and public mythology surrounding Gift of the Givers. It traces...
Smearing Justice: Marianne Thamm’s Crusade Against Advocate Muzi Sikhakhane vs What He Actually Said.
Gillian Schutte exposes how Daily Maverick’s Marianne Thamm distorted Advocate Muzi Sikhakhane SC’s closing argument at the Mbenenge Tribunal.
Afrofuturism or Energy Enslavement: A Black Consciousness Call to Claim Wakanda
By Gillian Schutte Beneath the mountains of a fictional African land, a radiant blue current flows like a heartbeat. It...
South Africa’s Manufactured Russia Panic – From Job Recruitment to Global Conflict Narratives
Gillian Schutte traces how donor-funded media captured the narrative — turning glossy influencer campaigns promising young South African women jobs...
Ladies and Gentlemen, What if Pieter Kriel is Helen Zille’s Latest Boy Puppet?
By Gillian Schutte Somewhere between squeezing his teenage zits and setting up his selfie-stick, Pieter Kriel has stumbled onto centre...
Two Judicial Sagas, Ten Years Apart: The Mabel Jansen and Selby Mbenenge Cases
By Gillian Schutte West Indian psychiatrist and decolonial philosopher, Frantz Fanon, wrote that “the Black man has no ontological resistance...
From Flirtation to Tribunal: The Misuse of Article 5 in the Mbenenge Case.
By: Gillian Schutte As the Judicial Conduct Tribunal against Judge President Selby Mbenenge drags on under intense public and media...
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THE TEMPLE TANTRUMERS
A temple tantrumer is someone whose conscience refuses to remain a spectator to injustice. The expression comes from the biblical...
Sies, DA! South Africa’s Municipal Services Are Not a Corporate Cash Cow
As South Africa approaches the November 2026 local government elections, the DA is pushing private-sector participation in municipal services as...