If Ghana wants a continental family meeting, let us have one, writes Qaanitah Hunter. Family meetings require honesty, and South Africa has files of its own.

When an anti-corruption institution is accused of being drawn into the very factional battles it was established to rise above, its credibility inevitably suffers, writes Qaanitah Hunter.

Allowing Accra to rewrite the narrative of South Africa’s continental standing unchecked carries irreversible risks, writes Qaanitah Hunter.

The ANC has spent years removing people from public office only to recycle them into different positions once the outrage faded. It won’t change now, writes Qaanitah Hunter.

While grassroots mobilisation is normally seen as a healthy feature of democratic life, it becomes dangerous when it is organised around exclusion, scapegoating, and hostility towards vulnerable groups, writes Qaanitah Hunter.

The current anti-immigrant mobilisation cannot be understood purely as a spontaneous social movement. We are entering territory where public anger becomes a resource and fear becomes a strategy, argues Qaanitah Hunter.

The ANC has chosen to play the same card it has played intermittently since electoral decline first appeared on the horizon 10 years ago, despite it never leading to a meaningful turnaround, writes Qaanitah Hunter.

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s tougher stance on the enforcement immigration laws raises the uncomfortable question of whether he is setting South Africa’s agenda or simply chasing one set by fear-mongering activists, writes Qaanitah Hunter.

The system is not merely leaking in the municipality. What’s happening is that the people tasked with protecting the reservoir appear to have helped drain it, writes Qaanitah Hunter.

From Durban to Pretoria, anti-migrant groups are mobilising around real service delivery failures. But the logic is fatally flawed, writes Qaanitah Hunter, and the state cannot remain passive as anger is weaponised into Afrophobia.