How do vigilante groups like Dudula come into being?
/ 1 April 2022

How do vigilante groups like Dudula come into being?

The state’s failure to act as a source of moral or political authority creates a vacuum that ‘seductive’ populist movements are happy to fill

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/ 4 September 2007

SA 60th in economic-freedom rankings

South Africa has been placed 60th in the latest international economic-freedom rankings, down six places on last year and 24 since 2004, the Free Market Foundation of Southern Africa said on Tuesday. ”After impressive gains … after 1994, South Africa’s overall economic freedom score has stagnated during recent years,” executive director Leon Louw said in a statement.