Last week seven political parties met in Johannesburg to forge a pre-election agreement aimed at winning sufficient votes in next year’s national and provincial elections to unseat the governing ANC. The initiative was led by the DA, the country’s second biggest party, and was earlier termed ‘the Moonshot Pact’. Interestingly, the meeting was chaired not by a DA […]

According to the World Health Organisation, “cholera transmission is closely linked to inadequate access to clean water and sanitation facilities. Typical at-risk areas include peri-urban slums, and camps for internally displaced persons or refugees, where minimum requirements of clean water and sanitation are not been met.”1   Democracy Digest 9 – Cholera – A Symptom of Poor Governance […]