Most committees are weak, lack political will, discourage public input and prevent oversight on spending.
Democracy is about much more than just elections, which the drafters of the Constitution understood – and political leaders choose to ignore.
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/ 10 December 2007
Recently the humanitarian organisation Black Sash presented a submission to the Competition Commission Tribunal on the bread price-fixing scandal. We were motivated to make the submission because the price of bread particularly affects those at the lower end of the socio-economic scale for whom bread is staple food.