A journey back to an Eastern Cape village after 20 years shows how dramatically the ANC’s esteem has fallen, writes Jonny Steinberg.

The campaign to impeach President Cyril Ramaphosa threatens to turn anti-corruption into its opposite, argues Jonny Steinberg.

Those who lament the Constitution’s impotence are missing the powerful hold it has on the country, for both good and ill, writes

The police minister’s advisor argues that the murder rate is declining in part because police are killing murderers in street battles. It is unlikely that he and the minister really believe this, Jonny Steinberg writes.

Either the police are botching the crime stats or a great drama is silently unfolding across South African society, but Police Minister Firoz Cachalia has not signalled that he knows this, Jonny Steinberg writes.

Over the last 26 years, the SAPS has evolved into a massive, nationwide machine for churning out crime, writes Jonny Steinberg.

Despite the excitement around the DA’s potential to expand its voter base, the party will always be restricted by South Africa’s electoral system and by its dependence on middle-class voters, writes Jonny Steinberg.

South Africa’s police crisis stems not from technical failures but from eight decades of uninterrupted political control from apartheid’s National Party to today’s ANC. The pivotal moment came in 1999 when Thabo Mbeki set a precedent that continues to undermine police reform efforts today, writes Jonny Steinberg.

Jonny Steinberg reflects on a electoral reform proposal, which he argues would allow South Africa to break free from its racially-divided voting patterns and finally create the diverse, competitive democracy it was meant to become.

Cyril Ramaphosa’s presidency may go down as one of the great political tragedies of our time – but not for the reasons most people think, writes Jonny Steinberg.