How a song, a burning university, and a DM turned my politics inside out I didn’t cry over a speech. I didn’t cry over a march. I cried over graphs. For years I had defended the DA as the “grown-up” option. In Politics 101 debates, I played the calm one: “They’re rational.” “They protect institutions.” “They’ll keep investor confidence.” “They’re non-racial.” I knew the vocabulary by heart: fiscal discipline, policy certainty, rule of law. Speaking like that felt safe. It fel

The Only Honest Story South Africa Refuses To Tell South Africa’s post-1994 transition is usually narrated as a triumph of reconciliation, a moral victory of democracy, and a symbolic transfer of political power. But beneath this soft-focus storyline lies the real conflict that has shaped the republic since day one — a conflict almost never acknowledged openly: The emerging Black elite and the colonial inheritors were always on a collision course. This is the only honest stor