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Citizens’ Recall

Posted by Trevor Watkins in Politics on October 22, 2010

Who is accountable for the mess South Africa is in today? Nobody! That’s our problem. We have very limited mechanisms for holding the incompetents and crooks accountable, so our problems continue and escalate. Our much touted constitution has let the people of South Africa down badly in the area of official accountability. As a citizen […]

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- African liberty Atlas Economic Research Foundation and IMANI’s African-focused program
- Boiling Frog Facebook page A page setup by Mark Heaton to highlight South Africa’s gradual slide into mediocrity
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- Free Market Foundation South African Free Market Think tank
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- Health Policy Unit dedicated to promoting a sound economic and business-friendly policy approach to the provision and funding of health care
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- Mail & Guardian Thoughtleader Major South African blog
- Mobilitate – municipal issue reporting Crowdsource idea for reporting municipal issues
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- Sketches by Boz Trevor Watkins personal blog
- South African political parties A comprehensive list of registered parties in SA
- South Africans for Liberty The wisdom of Julian Le Roux and Galen Sher…
- Tax Payers Movement of SA Well organised, well funded site
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- The Dinokeng Scenarios
- Zimbabwe Papers A Positive Agenda for Zimbabwean Renewal
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- CIA Fact Book – South Africa Everything you want to know about SA, from Big Brother
- Fallacies A useful list of fallacies and errors of reasoning from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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- INTERNET ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY A very useful and complete philosophical reference
- Library of Economics & Liberty dedicated to advancing the study of economics, markets, and liberty
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