People’s Charter launched ahead of 2024 election…

After three years of consultations, The United South Africa Movement (TUSAM) has launched the South African People's Charter and the Charter of Citizens' Obligations. In this interview with BizNews, TUSAM’s Solly Moeng says “this system is built to protect the ANC (African National Congress)”, and that it has to change “because these institutions that we built at the dawn of our democracy, with everybody thinking that they will stand between us and hell, have shown to be weakened, to be repurposed, to serve the interests of politicians who are criminals. We need to create buffers.” He also calls on citizens to inform themselves because “people still get taken for granted by political entrepreneurs on the basis of their poverty and on the basis of their lack of knowledge”. TUSAM - a non-partisan civic movement - will endorse only those political parties that pledge support for the People’s Charter.