The antidote to civilisational collapse – An interview with Adam Curtis (2018)

Re:The antidote to civilisational collapse – An interview wi... by zo1 on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @04:23AM (#26721823)

There is plenty of free-press and free-elections in South Africa, yet the corruption persists. The entire governmental institution is rotten to the core at this point, and no amount of voting will get it out from the national government without numerous arrests + money recovering operations.

So what I would vote as the method would be rule of law and actual no-nonsense follow-through with applying it, no matter the consequence. There have been so many blatant high-profile legal issues all the way up to the president and yet there have been practically no big convictions. The ruling party can't even kick-out a prominent member from their own party after he's been arrested for corruption.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_Magashule#Arrest_and_crimi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Zuma#Corruption_charges

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Re:The antidote to civilisational collapse – An interview wi... by Gupie on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @04:41AM (#26721958)

I agree the rule of law is very important and voters need to care about corruption more that partisanship.

How free is the press in South Africa? In the US and to a lesser extent in the UK it is owned by billionaires who broadcast an agenda that funnily enough benefits billionaires.

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Re:The antidote to civilisational collapse – An interview wi... by herodoturtle on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @05:18AM (#26722201)

> How free is the press in South Africa?

Freedom of the press has been built into our constitution since the end of Apartheid in 1994.

This freedom has proven to be pretty robust since then, but there have been some issues along the way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_media_in_South_Africa#Pre...

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