JUDITH FEBRUARY: SA's electoral system is weakened by the lack of accountability
JUDITH FEBRUARY: SA’s electoral system is weakened by the lack of accountability opinion Given the daily dose of the Zondo commission into state capture and what seems like endless stories of the failure by government to deliver basic services, the accountability link between citizens and their public representatives appears to be seriously compromised. Political parties themselves also appear unable to muster the internal democratic capacity to hold their members to account as they should. We have also heard it said many times before: the South African electoral system does not provide a s...
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