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Bhekisisa Mncube is a multi-award-winning former columnist for The Witness 5+ years, a regular columnist for Daily Maverick since October 2024, and a guest contributor to News24, City Press, Bulrushes and the LitNet journal.

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| Apr 2025
Polity.org.za
When I floated my “false dawn” analogy to senior scribe Lucas “Styles” Ledwaba, a man whose pen still carries the weight of thunder, he offered no comment, no acknowledgement. Instead, he sent me a track: “Mickey Mouse Freedom” by the late reggae maestro Lucky Dube, a man, the irony of ironies, gunned down by the very criminals our liberation movement promised to vanquish.

OPINION | Bhekisisa Mncube: Is South Africa ready for a white president?

| Apr 2025
News24
The unresolved National Question, beyond race, also encompasses class and gender dimensions. Thus, it becomes a cocktail that serves as an ever-present undercurrent in contemporary South African politics, frequently obscured by the more visible and urgent crises of rising inequality, poverty, and land hunger.
| May 2025
Daily Maverick
Even our serenity was stolen — the right to hear birdsong without surveillance, to wade in the river without suspicion, to watch mountains in stillness without fear of displacement. It was the freedom to laugh, dance, sit beneath a tree, and hear the soft, jubilant racket of children at play, lost forever.

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GNU | Effectiveness of deputy ministers: Bhekisisa Mncube

PolitySA

The Love Diary of a Zulu Boy

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Mangosuthu Buthelezi | Bhekisisa Mncube speaks on the former Inkatha leader