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Anti-corruption laws - do we have the balance right?

Posted by Ian Ollis on Saturday, May 28, 2011,

The seemingly stringent – and laudable - requirements of a raft of supposedly protective laws from Fica to Rica have become an onerous burden on ordinary consumers. Meanwhile their very raison d’etre is eroded by the high-level government , criminal and business fat cats who seem exempted. This woeful imbalance not only opens door to mega-bucks corruption, but foments the mounting rage as the little guy suffers and the powerful and well-connected thrive.

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Speech by DA Parliamentary leader Athol Trollip, on the commemoration of Africa Day to National Assembly

Posted by Ian Ollis on Tuesday, May 25, 2010,

25th May 2010


Today is a symbolic day that must focus our attention on celebration as well as stock taking.

It has been just more than 50 years since the first president of a post-colonial African state, Kwame Nkrumah said, "Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. They claim it as their own and none can keep it from them".

Since then Africa, state by state, has systematically claimed its freedom from its colonizers. Sadly many of these states have take...


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