Author: Sandile Memela

South Africans are right to demand that immigration laws are enforced, writes Sandile Memela. But turning ordinary citizens into enforcers risks replacing state failure with mob justice, while corrupt leaders continue to evade accountability.

Sandile Memela examines the backlash against Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi and the deeper contradictions of Blackness, racial capitalism, and non racialism in South Africa.

Sandile Memela argues that corruption is increasingly being rationalised as inequality, greed and exclusion reshape society’s moral compass in South Africa.

Sandile Memela reflects on African self-betrayal through Isitha saBantu, confronting complicity, failed leadership, and the illusion of liberation.

Sandile Memela writes that Christmas exposes how inequality quietly divides South African families, turning festive gatherings into spaces of tension, guilt, and fragile unity.

Sandile Memela reflects on silence, wounded egos and the leadership culture hollowing out South Africa from within.

Sandile Memela argues that township thuggery, once celebrated as resistance against apartheid’s economic theft, has now turned inward, draining families and communities of resources while politicians mirror gangster tactics through corruption and tender fraud.

Sandile Memela recounts how Bara has become a place of death for black families and highlights the urgent need for reform.

Expensive, selective state funerals deepen inequality, reward connections over service, and turn mourning into political theatre.

A generation of black men has surrendered to fear, abandoning courage and leadership, writes Sandile Memela.