Siya Khumalo
Siya Khumalo writes and speaks on religion, politics and sex; his articles have appeared on platforms like News24, Daily Maverick, MambaOnline, BizNews and Rand Daily Mail. He authored You have to be gay to know God (Kwela Books, 2018), which won the Desmond Tutu-Gerrit Brand Prize. He was a 2022 Mandela-Washington Fellow as part of the United States’s Young African Leaders Initiative. He’s ex-military, a Mr Gay South Africa 2015 runner-up and a Mr Gay World top 10 finalist.
Can an Old Covenant produce a New South Africa? A review of Justice, grief and Christ’s pathways to wholeness edited by James Goddard
2026-05-26"South Africa’s challenge is no longer simply moral reconciliation, but coordinated survival. The capacities produced by Afrikaner covenantal thinking – planning, infrastructure, institutional memory, long-horizon cooperation – cannot simply be discarded because the metaphysics that once organised them has shifted."
Why we’re letting the ANC destroy South Africa (and how we can stop)
2023-10-30"After all, what’s more convenient than blaming the ANC for the continuation of apartheid’s legacy? What’s easier than making the problem internalised black inferiority, black-against-black malgovernance, with zero reference to white supremacy?"