*Change to law would give intelligence agencies broad powers of surveillance but do little to safeguard secret funds from looting* * Civil society jo...
.*Image: Flickr/GovtZA *Where is the Electoral Reform Consultation Panel?* Minister of Home Affairs Aaron Motsoaledi is again blocking electoral ref...
*ome* Picture: Launching the Enhancing Accountability Programme with, from left, OUTA Parliamentary Engagement and Research Manager Rachel Fischer, OU...
.* *Holding ministers to account is hard work: here are some tools* A stronger democracy needs a stronger parliament, and OUTA has produced some tools...
.*Image: Shutterstock *Rushing bills through Parliament limits legitimacy* The legislative process is an important process but loses a sense of legit...
.*Image: Flickr_GovZA This article first appeared in the Daily Maverick on 11 October 2023 *Mantashe’s fixation on NGO funding is a pretext to silence...
.*Image: Shutterstock *New RAF legislation will not stand in the court of public opinion or any other court* The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA...
* *Picture: OUTA *Parliamentary committee misled during NSFAS meeting* On 4 October 2023, Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Higher Education, Scienc...
* *Picture: Flickr/GovernmentZA *She’s gone, but her legacy is not forgotten* * The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse is relieved that Parliament has vot...
* *Picture: Ground Up *OUTA calls on National Assembly to act swiftly and fire Mkhwebane** * “A resounding victory for accountability”. This is how Ad...
.*Image: OUTA *Public Service Commission Bill is a step in the right direction* OUTA wants the Public Service Commission Bill to help professionalise...
.*Image: OUTA This article was first published in the Daily Maverick on 3 July 2023 *Is South Africa being governed through the courts?* The above qu...
.*Image: OUTA *Ignorance is not bliss; it's a symptom of a leaderless government* As individuals, when we encounter financial or business decline, we...
.*Image: OUTA *Parliament’s failure to implement state capture recommendations undermines democracy* *WATCH *our short video (1 min 26 sec) on Parlia...
.*Image: Flickr/GovtZA *Fund the IEC properly rather than political parties* The National Assembly has passed the Appropriation Bill without address...
.* *Irrational government conduct - corruption or ineptitude, nothing * else* *Ir-ra-tio-nal (adjective)* - Lacking in usual or normal clarity - N...
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