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President Jacob Zuma shouldn’t be allowed to detract from the momentum that Cyril Ramaphosa, the new president of the ruling ANC, has started to build.

The use of the prosecuting authority and the police in ANC succession struggles has a long history. What’s different in the Zuma era is the symbiosis between elite police and the prosecution service.

The election of Port Elizabeth’s first black mayor in 1995 signalled that the democratic change that had started in 1994 was irreversible. But problems lay ahead.

The year ahead promises to be a very difficult but also a very decisive year for South Africa. Is President Ramaphosa equal to the challenge?

The spy watchdog needs to make its findings on complaints against the country’s intelligence agencies public as a matter of principle.

KPMG South Africa executives have set a new benchmark for the country assuming responsibility for wrongdoing in their organisation.

The census will focus everyone in on the core challenges the country faces, where they are, and who is most affected.

The political cost of corruption is reaching unacceptable levels in South Africa. Reversing the effects of state decay on the poor will take short and long term interventions.

For every office holder who may lose a seat because they are prosecuted, another job opens up.

South Africa’s new finance minister comes with considerable skills and political finesse needed to steer the country out of its economic quagmire.