Terry Dowdall

Well for starters, we need to find ways to get the information about rip-offs clearly out to the ordinary people, the ordinary voters. Daily Maverick is amazing – a clear source of information about what is happening, and an influential force for change. But it is a middle-class instrument, is it not? I would think that responsible journalism also needs to find a way to get the attention of ordinary working-class people with very clear, reader-friendly information about exactly how State Capture and corruption work, and, more importantly, exactly how that steals from the poor, takes away their services, jobs, resources. Otherwise they are open to the Jacob Zuma “white money-grabbing monopoly capital” story. They also need to understand how Julius Malema is implicated in corruption, since he poses in a general way, the same threat that any totalitarian demagogue (such as Hitler) does in difficult economic times. He is presently in Hitler’s position in the late 1920s.

But essentially, get an additional, working-class-friendly paper out there in the townships, down to earth and lucid and straight – and in accessible English. Those are the next hearts and minds you need to access.

At the end of the day, we have to win the battle at the ballot box, so it’s very important to enlighten the majority on how corrupt the ANC is and hopefully they won’t vote for them.

We must become a constituency-based democracy so that there is accountability.

Residents must stop paying rates to corrupt officials and must take over the running of their municipalities, as some towns have started to do.

You must continue exposing the corrupt politicians.

Good luck.

Allister Rogan