Johannesburg. Grew up post-apartheid. Writes about what liberation actually looks like when it arrives and disappoints.
Johannesburg. Grew up post-apartheid. Writes about what liberation actually looks like when it arrives and disappoints.
Jun 24, 2026
Most people think UK courts can strike down laws they dislike. They cannot. But what they can do is far more interesting — and far more powerful than politicians want you to believe.
Jun 15, 2026
Two seismic things happened on this continent in the past two weeks and the global press barely blinked. South Africa just earned its first credit rating upgrade in 21 years. The Gambia just became the first African nation to ratify a binding continental law against gender-based violence.
Jun 15, 2026
We have confused the performance of caring with the act of caring. Posting a black square, sharing an AI-generated infographic, changing your profile filter — none of it is activism. It is reputation management dressed in a protest sign.
Jun 15, 2026
On June 10, 2026, a tiny West African nation became the first on the entire continent to ratify the AU Convention on Ending Violence Against Women. The rest of Africa has no excuse now.
May 27, 2026
A Cameroonian man who spent 20 years building a life in Durban had his shop door broken down in April. South Africa is not just failing migrants. It is failing itself.
May 19, 2026
South Africa's Constitutional Court just ruled that parliament must investigate its own president. Ramaphosa's response? File a legal challenge to slow it all down. We have seen this script before.
May 13, 2026
Half a million dollars stuffed in a sofa. A president who promised to end corruption. Now South Africa's Constitutional Court has forced Parliament to do what the ANC spent years refusing to do.
May 12, 2026
Half a million dollars stuffed in a sofa. Four years of delays. Now the Constitutional Court has finally forced parliament's hand. And Ramaphosa's response? He is running to the courts to stall it all over again.
May 5, 2026
The textbook says government works through laws, elections, and merit. The real answer is simpler and uglier: who you know, who you owe, and who owes you. Patronage is not a bug in the system. It is the system.
May 2, 2026
A court in Hangzhou just ruled that firing a worker because AI took his job is illegal. It is a small case. The implications are enormous.
May 1, 2026
The UK keeps giving its most prestigious cultural crown to post-industrial northern cities that the establishment long wrote off. Bradford just proved that was the right call. Now nine more places are fighting for the same shot.
Apr 30, 2026
South Africa's national police commissioner walked into the Pretoria Magistrates Court on April 21 facing corruption charges, and two days later Cyril Ramaphosa called it a win for accountability. I do not buy that for a second.