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This was the moment for Ramaphosa to lay it all bare for the nation. He didnt 29 April 2021 8:18 AM Share This: Open Secrets Hennie Van Vuuren says President Ramaphosas first day of testimony before the Zondo Commission was wishy-washy. Hennie Van Vuuren, the CEO of Open Secrets speaks to Refilwe Moloto about the appearance of the ruling party president, Cyril Ramaphosa at the Zondo Commission after Wednesdays testimony. Van Vuuren says it is understandable that citizens feel frustrated at much...

RECENT LOBBYING, ETHICS & CAMPAIGN FINANCE UPDATES We read the news, cut through the noise and provide you the notes. Welcome to  Compliance Notes from Nossaman’s Government Relations & Regulation Group – a periodic digest of the headlines, statutory and regulatory changes and court cases involving campaign finance, lobbying compliance, election law and government ethics issues at the federal, state and local level.   If there is a particular subject or jurisdiction you’d like to see c...

NationofChange The Court could reinforce the growing influence of this type of secret funding for political campaigns. In Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Rodriquez, to be argued on April 26, the justices will consider the right to confidentiality for donations to nonprofits. It could have significant implications given how corporations and wealthy individuals hide their role in politics by routing their money through opaque nonprofits. The Americans for Prosperity Founda...

Font Size Ethics. Objectivity. These things are not high priorities for CBS. One continuing example of that is Gayle King, a Democratic donor and cheerleader for her preferred political party. The fact that she co-hosts CBS This Morning and interviews powerful politicians, as well as reports on politics, doesn’t seem like a problem for the network. Four years ago this week that fact came into view, yet again. It turns out that King had been vacationing with the Obamas. See the ...

MONEYWEB app instead? Justice must not only be done, justice must be seen to be done. 00:01  A complainant’s tenacity has highlighted how auditor failures ‘enabled’ the procurement corruption that helped bring SAA to its knees. Image: Guillem Sartorio, Bloomberg In South Africa nothing exemplifies the arcane and sheltered world of auditing and all its attendant woes quite as much as the consent order system that underpins the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors (Irba) ...

S. Mahfuz/BenarNews The Malaysian government’s desire for “absolute control” over information led Reporters Without Borders to drop the nation 18 spots on its World Press Freedom Index released Tuesday – the biggest dip among all counties ranked in the watchdog group’s annual report. Elsewhere in the region, the governments of Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand used the coronavirus pandemic to repress the media in 2020, the Paris-based group reported. Ju...

South Africa is putting profit before Yemeni lives Zen Mathe © The raids came after Houthi rebels stepped up attacks against targets inside Saudi Arabia in recent ... Smoke billows from the site of Saudi Arabia-led air attacks in Sanaa, Yemen March 7, 2021 [File: Khaled Abdullah/Reuters] Democratic South Africa’s commitment to human rights has never been solely inward-looking. Its constitutional order was crafted with a deep awareness of the South African apartheid state’...

By Susan Gonzalez April 14, 2021 Share this with FacebookShare this with TwitterShare this with LinkedInShare this with EmailPrint this Top row: Isabela Mares, Tisa Wenger; Bottom row: Robyn Creswell, Marisa Anne Bass Four Yale faculty members are among a group of 184 artists, writers, scholars and scientists awarded 2021 fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.  Marisa Anne Bass, Robyn Creswell, Isabela Mares, and Tisa Wenger were chosen through a rigorous peer-review pro...

The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe to Support Progressive Journalism The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter. Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? There has never been a politician more consistently cynical than Mitch McConnell. He’s the guy who wrote about how moved he was to witness the signing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965—as a young aide ...

Print This is the April 7, 2021, edition of the Essential Politics newsletter. Like what you’re reading? Sign up to get it in your inbox three times a week. There’s something about Georgia. Over the past six months, the state has played a starring role in the 2020 presidential contest, the battle for control of the Senate and, now, a debate over voting access in future elections. Georgia lawmakers passed, and the Republican governor quickly signed, a law giving themselves greater control o...