Real Politics Column

The DA is promising what the ANC promised and failed to deliver, and the question is whether different hands can fix the same broken system, writes Zukile Majova in Real Politics.

The Freedom Front Plus has discovered an unexpected political asset in Pieter Groenewald. Black admiration for his performance as Minister of Correctional Services has given the party attention it could never buy, writes Zukile Majova in Real Politics.

After the 4 November local government elections, Julius Malema and Jacob Zuma may hold the balance of power in some of South Africa's biggest and most economically important cities, writes Zukile Majova in Real Politics.

Helen Zille is running the strongest campaign in Johannesburg, but she is not yet winning the coalition war, Zukile Majova writes in Real Politics. 

South Africa has spent years regulating political donations. It has done almost nothing to regulate political influence. That blind spot may become the biggest threat to local democracy, writes Zukile Majova in Real Politics.

As South Africa edges toward another flashpoint over immigration, one uncomfortable truth cannot be ignored. The loudest anger is not coming from the leafy suburbs of Cape Town, Durban and Sandton, writes Zukile Majova in Real Politics.

accident. From now on, Zukile Majova's weekly column will land every Monday morning. Geordin Hill-Lewis may have inherited the most important job in South African opposition politics, writes Zukile Majova in Real Politics.

Every year South Africans commemorate June 16 by remembering the courage of the young people who challenged apartheid's education system in 1976, writes Zukile Majova in Real Politics.

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.