Constitutional Monarchy
South Africa’s governance challenge is not only about budgets, elections, or service delivery. It is structural. We operate with two systems that both exist in real life: the constitutional state — modern, centralised, administrative traditional leadership — local, legitimacy-based, community-rooted The problem is not whether traditional leadership exists. It does. The problem is that its role is too often unclear, inconsistent, and under-institutionalised — especially in rural areas where land, identity, and daily governance are inseparable. When roles are ambiguous, accountability fails. When accountability fails, communities lose protection.