by Stephanie Hale Imagine someone you hardly knew gave you a hundred dollars. How would you react? What are the chances you would just walk away with the money and spend it however you wanted? In politics, instead of just one hundred dollars, millions of dollars are donated by wealthy individuals and corporations to political
A Global Crisis of Youth Unemployment
by Fritz Jooste Recently a friend from the States told me that she is returning to school to get a law degree. She explained that she was motivated by years of interning and working bottom-of-the-rung jobs in journalism prompting her to try a more-lucrative career in law. She joked, however, that perhaps madness was the
Gun Ownership: Good or bad?
by Stephanie Hale Controversy over a citizen’s right to own a gun has become a worldwide issue. From people in the United States using the constitutional provision allowing for protection against the government as justification for gun ownership, to people in South Africa using the extremely high crime rate as validation, it is evident
If Parliament is serious about corruption, it must bite the hand that feeds
by Gregory Solik The regulation of private party funding is a critical site for the struggle for accountable governance. That is why the media fiasco around the relationship between the Gupta family and government (both the Democratic Alliance (DA) and the African National Congress (ANC)) is misplaced. It exposes just how little we think about
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