by David Le Page | 22 Oct 2012 | Electoral systems, Uncategorized
The Economist (following many others) has pointed out one of the key problems with South Africa’s current electoral system: One of the parliament’s worst features is its party-list method of choosing members, who are thus entirely in thrall to ANC bosses rather...
by David Le Page | 21 Oct 2012 | Party finance, Uncategorized
A recent story in the Mail & Guardian reveals that a consortium linked to financing the ANC has scored free shares in Capitec Bank with the assistance of two state bodies: the Public Investment Corporation (PIC), which is supposed to focus on growing state...
by David Le Page | 13 Sep 2012 | General, Uncategorized
When South Africans finally secured a democracy in 1994, it was only natural, after three hundred years of bitter struggles against apartheid and colonialism, for people to think: ‘At last. We have secured our rights. We can relax now.’ Unfortunately, the...
