Lobbying Campaign

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.

Elements in the IFP and its youth brigade see the postponement of the national elective conference as a delaying tactic.