The DA Youth calls on the Council of Higher Education to intervene immediately after reports that South African universities are still continuing with the practice of offering unaccredited degrees and courses to students. I raised this very issue with South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) in November last year after an  outcry about the [...]

Saturday 26 March 2011 Indeed power belongs to the people. You have the power to vote for the government you believe will deliver. If the government/ councilor you have voted for in the last election has not delivered, you have the power to vote them out. The power does not lie with politicians, but the [...]

It is disheartening, on the morning of South Africa’s human rights day, to read the ANCYL’s statement that they disapprove of Zuma’s administrations vote in favour of UN Security Council Resolution 1973 to impose a No-Fly-Zone in Libya. Instead the ANCYL further implies that because the UN has yet to impose such a sanction on [...]

Fellow Democrats, Driving around the streets of South Africa in the last week or so, one is struck by the many posters and billboards encouraging people to go and register this weekend, the 5th and 6th of March. It is not the posters that are of interest to me, but the message that they carry: [...]