Real Politics Column

The people of Emfuleni face a simple question when they go to the polls on 4 November 2026: if life has become harder over the past decade, why keep voting the same way? Asks Zukile Majovain Real Politics. 

South Africans can no longer afford to view Phala Phala as a private matter involving a private businessman. Whatever happened at President Cyril Ramaphosa's game farm in Limpopo has grown far beyond the theft of foreign currency hidden in furniture, writes Zukile Majova in Real Politics.

Helen Zille is running a smart campaign for mayor of Johannesburg because she refuses to turn the election into an ideological fight, writes Zukile Majova in Real Politics.

Cyril Ramaphosa is still standing not because he is unbeatable. He is standing because he is the main meal ticket for too many powerful people in the ANC, writes Zukile Majova in Real Politics. 

The Constitutional Court has done more than revive the Phala Phala scandal. It has redrawn the political battlefield around President Cyril Ramaphosa at a delicate moment, writes Zukile Majova in Real Politics.

The amabutho are keeping the peace. That should be the state's job. Thousands of Zulu regiments are marching through South African cities, disciplined and structured, answering to King Misuzulu kaZwelithini. The question is how long that can last, writes Zukile Majova in Real Politics.

President Cyril Ramaphosa had little room to manoeuvre in the escalating power struggle inside the South African Police Service, writes Zukile Majova in Real Politics. 

Millions of South Africans are ready to walk away from the ANC. The real question is whether they will walk towards the Democratic Alliance, writes Zukile Majova in Real Politics. 

South Africa may be standing at a political turning point, and it is not coming from opposition benches but from within the ANC’s own house, writes Zukile Majova in Real Politics. 

A growing anti-unity government faction inside the African National Congress is gaining ground and could destabilise national politics before the 2027 conference, writes Zukile Majova in Real Politics. 

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s political survival is tied to a difficult truth: he depends on leaders he may not fully trust to keep his reform agenda alive and to steady the fragile government of national unity, writes Zukile Majova in Real Politics.

South Africa is finally having an honest conversation about Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment. And it is long overdue, writes Zukile Majova in Real Politics.