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Some of the opinions in the Voices section this week:
Advocating accountability
Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu says for a regime of preventive controls to see the light of day, a strong tone at the top and ethical culture must be the concrete foundation on which such a discipline is built.
Plugging the water leaks
Our once-formidable services have been left to decay, denying many their human rights, write Barbara Schreiner and David Lewis.
Vodacom, you can do far better
By conceding the bare minimum to stay on the right side of the Competition Commission, the mobile operator is merely consolidating its dominance, argues Tebogo Khaas.
Regulating coalitions will ensure stability
Terry Tselane says the current approach, which uses by-elections to resolve an impasse, is neither helpful nor sustainable. Merely having a by-election does not guarantee that there will be an outright winner.
Porous borders fail citizens
Maruping Phepheng writes that South Africa’s weak border controls are an indictment on a weak government with no plan.
We can blame crime and xenophobia where the cruel conflict between the locals and irregular immigrants is concerned, but my firm view is that a great part of it is all avoidable, if government could clamp down on border officials’ willingness to be bribed by those seeking entry.
