Tarot card reader Samantha Celeste. Picture: Hein Kaiser New Year’s resolutions aside, everyone wants to have a glimpse of what 2026 may have in store for South Africa. The year that almost was, 2025, has been a turbulent, crazy and somewhat unsettling year.
Tarot card reader Samantha Celeste ofHeavenly Healingin Benoni said that there’s no way to sugarcoat the year ahead, either. She said that the new year will arrive with all the subtlety of a death metal band at 3am in a retirement village. January, she said, will be a rocky month for the establishment, she said.
Political structures may wobble, economic policies could be overturned or disrupted, and social order might take a few unexpected knocks. “It is unsettling, but it clears away what no longer works,” she said. “Think of it as demolition before reconstruction.” And if there is demolition to be done, the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry may well be holding the sledgehammer, she said.
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It’s a potential line in the sand, and South Africans must expect more revelations that may shake the foundations of political and institutional power, forcing more hidden truths into the light, she said. Exposed corruption and looming legal consequences naturally destabilise the systems that rely on secrecy to function. Celeste added that it will be painful, vastly different to the Zondo commission’s State Capture chronicles, but a necessary and cleansing fire.
After January’s shockwave, February takes a more fortified stance. Citizens, leaders and institutions plant their feet in position. It is a month of holding ground rather than charging ahead.
South Africans demonstrate once again that when circumstances wobble, grit kicks in. The mood may be tense, but the message is clear: no one is pushing this country around. March, Celeste said, raises the volume on calls for justice.
Transparency, fairness, accountability. These become non-negotiables. And with the Madlanga commission likely to release interim findings or intensify its questioning, the public mood shifts from defensive to corrective.
South Africans insist that truth must translate into action. “March is about restoring integrity,” she said. April exposes the widening fault lines.
Unemployment, financial instability and inequality bite harder. But the harshness of the month also brings out something innately South African, the neighbourliness of the country’s people. Grassroots networks come alive.
Communities hold each other up. Hardship becomes a mirror that reflects not just struggle, but solidarity.
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