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Unions and broken State apparatus

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If you are building an organisation which is in public service, should you have to reveal all your funding sources? We have seen the erosion of State institutions over the past 20 years - can the poor survive without functional state apparatus? Is the relationship between unions and the ANC surreptitious? Do South Africans have a viable alternative political party to vote for? Nando's · The Burning Platform
3 Dec 2020 English South Africa Politics · News

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