Even incomplete or insincere apologies have restorative value.
- Senior Lecturer, Edge Hill University
Countries that regulate political party funding do so to preserve their sovereignty and integrity of domestic politics.
Some prosecutions followed soon after President Cyril Ramaphosa promised accountability for the Marikana massacre.
Legislation to control the private funding of political parties in South Africa is long overdue.
It’s still unclear whether Zimbabwe will manage an effective transition to participatory democracy and freedom. And the current signs are not encouraging.
Will the Timol case create the necessary political will to open dozens more inquests into apartheid deaths? Maybe, but government machinery has proven to be rusty and extremely slow.
