If the media isn’t paying for stories, lobbyists are – and they decide what the public should know.
Both party funding and political debate are obscured by non-disclosure of financial sources. Parliament must change this urgently.
Various attempts by big businesses to influence government policies have raised eyebrows.
We should welcome the arrival of US-style political lobbying in South Africa, done in public rather than in private.
A small, economically powerful Jewish minority has a perfect right to try its hand at some arm-twisting.
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/ 15 September 2009
Elements in the IFP and its youth brigade see the postponement of the national elective conference as a delaying tactic.