The decision by De Klerk, to avoid that inevitable calamity 20 years earlier, became a decisive turning point in bringing about the democracy we enjoy today, writes Yonela Diko.

ActionSA has done exceptionally well in Gauteng and other parts of KZN, on the back of their promise to deal decisively with the "Broken Window" syndrome in Johannesburg, writes Yonela Diko.

The ANC seems stuck in its inglorious ways, with corruption, poor service delivery, incompetence, and arrogance having become it's defining feature, writes Yonela Diko.

When a party communicates with people only through billboards and TV adverts, it never truly knows just how huge the gap is between their posters and reality, writes Yonela Diko.

The ANC is poised for a comeback after a wrenching outcome in 2016 for the party's members and its leaders, who had grown lazy and fat and forgot the battle they still needed to wage on behalf of the people, writes Yonela Diko.

The Democratic Alliance is a party pretty much on life support, writes Yonela Diko.

Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has been honing her skills as a political force since she was a young woman trying to find her own place in an ANC of larger-than-life comrades, writes Yonela Diko.

The change with regard to the presence of women in the workforce can be said to be the most comprehensive transformation of the past century and they have brought great benefits to productivity.

The challenges Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana faces are the results of multiple blows over years to our economy, writes Yonela Diko.

Some of the lasting effects of colonialism, caste and skin colour remains in the South African Indian community, writes Yonela Diko.

Former President Jacob Zuma managed to whittle down the country's institutions and the ANC step by step, as was exposed by recent public violence, writes Yonela Diko.

None would have expected that Jacob Zuma would turn against the people and take the country on a road to ruin, writes Yonela Diko.

Thabo Mbeki may well belong to a generation that learnt to accept that as long as white people are alright, all is alright with the world, writes Yonela Diko.

For the sake of our own survival, we need to know what we are taking from the planet that we cannot replace, writes Yonela Diko.

Not institutionalising anti-corruption within the ANC was a great oversight, writes Yonela Diko.

The ANC Youth League task team has a mammoth job ahead of it - to ensure it is different from the last league, writes Yonela Diko.

If we are to learn anything from our own history, it has to be that whatever limitations Cyril Ramaphosa has, Ace Magashule is not the answer, writes Yonela Diko.

The shifts needed to make real and meaningful change in racial inequality require deeply uncomfortable changes to white lives, writes Yonela Diko.