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Sansia Blackmore
Dr Sansia Blackmore is a Senior Lecturer at the African Tax Institute at the University of Pretoria.
How the elite benefit from our taxes
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
Taxpayers must bargain for accountable governance
The government will predictably object that taxpayers are sabotaging transformation, the same old argument whenever they face accountability
Spin dictators: SA needs ‘no more lies, no easy victories’
The active resistance of the electorate is what remains to prevent leaders from subverting checking mechanisms and tipping the country into spin dictatorship
The ANC’s tyranny of the collective
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…