Columns

Zuma’s Party: Rogue’s gallery

| Sep 2024
The Witness
This week, my dear leader, let’s delve into the rogue’s gallery sworn in last week, now gracing the opposition benches in the National Assembly, hand-picked by none other than uBaba of the Zuma Party.

GNU & Green shoots

| Sep 2024
The Witness
As a prematurely retired servant of the people, I’m seeing green shoots in the DA’s behaviour, finally ridding itself of rotten apples.

 End spiritual abuse

| Oct 2024
The Witness
"The strategy, a first of its kind, seeks to unite the faith sector to address its perennial crisis: complicity in the perpetuation of spiritual violence, that twin evil of gender-based violence."

Bhekisisa Mncube: Whose GNU is it anyway?

| Jul 2024
news24
In a satirical column addressed to Cyril Ramaphosa, Bhekisisa Mncube reflects on the President's negotiating skills and how he landed up with the cabinet he has.

Body of Work – Polity

| Oct 2024
Polity.org
The Faith Action to End Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Collective, in collaboration with We Will Speak Out South Africa, launched a groundbreaking Interfaith GBV Prevention and Mitigation Strategy 2024–2030 in Johannesburg.

Body of work

May 2018 - current
Bhekisisa Mncube as seen in: Flipboard, City Press, News24, Sunday Times, Eyewitness News, The Citizen (South Africa), Mail & Guardian, Sowetan, Polity, JournalismIziko (May 2018 - current).

Jacob Zuma: the uncouth populist posing as a messiah

| Jun 2024
City Press
The political gods smiled at me when I chanced upon the uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) Facebook Live session leading up to the first sitting of the seventh Parliament of South Africa.

Zuma: Messiah or populist?

| Jun 2024
LitNet
The rise of Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK Party) represents a confluence of ethnic mobilisation, false anti-capitalist sentiment, myopic pro-black advocacy, and purported resistance against Western influence.

Billboard battles – When dead leaders campaign for the living

| Apr 2024
news24
In a satirical column addressed to President Cyril Ramaphosa, Bhekisisa Mncube writes about his ideological battle with some of the country's two-faced leaders.

Letter to Mahlamba Ndlopfu – Ubani Lo Zuma?

| Dec 2023
news24
Chief Dwasaho, the sands are shifting, heralding an era of sea change. uBaba kaDuduzane (soothe others), no Mziwoxolo (house of refuge) Edward Zuma and a band of 25 et al. has turned traitor, wielding the Spear of the Nation (uMkhonto weSizwe) to stab you squarely in the back.