Open Secrets ZA
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Open Secrets holds the profiteers of economic crime, human rights abuses, and war to account. We go where it’s hard to disrupt networks of power.
🇬🇧 Labour peer Baroness Margaret Hodge is the favourite to become the new head of Ofcom. The veteran Labour peer, who previously called for a ban on online anonymity, is understood to be one of three candidates shortlisted to replace Lord Grade as the media regulator’s chairman. The 81-year-old accused the Government of deliberately delaying the Online Safety Act to avoid difficult conversations with social media companies, saying she was prepared to campaign to make sure the law was tough enough. Hodge was appointed Minister for Children in 2003 but immediately came under fire for the systemic sexual abuse of children that occurred in care homes during her tenure as Leader of Islington Council. After labeling one victim, Demetrious Panton, as "extremely disturbed" in a letter to the BBC, she was forced to issue a High Court apology and pay a £30,000 settlement. Follow: @europa
Discovery Health CEO, Dr Ron Whelan, says the scheme has paid over R3 million for @OscarChalupsky's treatments since his diagnosis. He explains why they can't pay for all cancer treatments in full. #CarteBlanche @ermbates twitter.com/carteblanchetv…
[WATCH] A Cape Town resident says that for as long as the government fails to deal with youth unemployment, criminals will continue to recruit unemployed youth into their activities. @imanrappetti has more. #SONA2026
