South Africans are being shortchanged as the budget is neither pro-poor nor pro-growth as our taxes are diverted to the interests of the political elite
The government will predictably object that taxpayers are sabotaging transformation, the same old argument whenever they face accountability
The active resistance of the electorate is what remains to prevent leaders from subverting checking mechanisms and tipping the country into spin dictatorship
Moral duality characterises collective societies. One set of norms applies to in-group members; a different set applies to out-group individuals. The governing party’s collectivist politics is divisive and paralysing