Keyword: politics

Behind our Political Landscape in South Africa: Who Holds the Purse Strings?

Picture: medicineworld.org Glenn Ashton - Our government is well known for making bizarre decisions. Lets not even go into Eskom, ARVs, the HIV and AIDS ‘debate’, or the arms deals for that matter. Even the small things like why a perfectly good policy on plastic bags was undermined by vested interests, how market related interests constantly trump social interests in seemingly obscure ways all are actions that force us to ask just what was behind that decision? One of the major swings of policy by our new government was...