R2K Files Urgent Application Over Tolls
R2K files an urgent application to open up the court record on tolling in the Western CapeThe Right2Know (R2K) says it has filed an urgent application to open up the court record on tolling in the...
View ArticleActivist Tackles Abusive Shell Companies
Global Witness co-founder advocates for financial transparency in an attempt to re-write rules to change the way companies do businessCharmian Gooch, a co-founder of Global Witness, a group that...
View ArticleAid Workers Chased Away from Church
Gift of the Givers aid workers chased away from the scene of a collapsed building in NigeriaHumanitarian organisation, Gift of the Givers, says its aid workers were chased away from the scene of a...
View ArticleHSF Fights for Full Access to JSC Deliberations
The Helen Suzman Foundation wants to know exactly how appointments to the Bench are decided in the judiciaryGiven the core role of the judiciary, the Helen Suzman Foundation wants to know exactly how...
View Articlee-Tolls a Burden to the Poor - Makhura
The e-tolling system places a disproportionate burden on low and middle income householdsGauteng Premier, David Makhura, says that the e-tolling system placed a disproportionate burden on low and...
View ArticleDemocracy Under Attack, Says Rupert
Billionaire businessman, Johann Rupert, says that freedom of speech, transparency and honesty in government and farmers, are under attack in South AfricaBillionaire businessman, Johann Rupert, says...
View ArticleCalls for transparent, Accountable Political System
ConCourt to hear an application by a NGO seeking to determine whether Parliament has failed in its constitutional obligation to get political parties to disclose the source of their private fundingThe...
View ArticleAutlwetse Not Aware of Funds Embezzlement
Autlwetse tells Parliament that he is not aware of any fund embezzlement at the Botswana Society for the Deaf in FrancistownBotswana’s deputy minister of education and skills development, Kgotla...
View ArticlePresident Can’t be Own Judge – Madonsela
Madonsela calls for the Executive Ethics Act to be amended so that ‘the president cannot be a judge in his own case’Public Protector Thuli Madonsela has called for the Executive Ethics Act to be...
View ArticleOUTA Calls on Govt to Scrap e-Tolls
The only positive e-tolling outcome would be if government scraps the system and comes up with funding through the national fiscus, fuel levy and other mechanisms, argues OUTAThe Opposition to Urban...
View ArticleThe Gap in South Africa's Transparency Regime
The last time the United Democratic Movement’s Bantu Holomisa lodged a complaint with the Public Protector, it led to the eventual resignation of the chair of the Independent Electoral Commission...
View ArticleSwiss Battle to Return Africa's Stolen Loot
It irritates Valentin Zellweger that ‘no longer than six minutes into any James Bond movie, a sleazy Swiss banker still appears.’He’s probably referring especially to Mr Lachaise, the nasty Swiss...
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