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“A lack of accountability is the slow poison that destroys government and public services

— Karl le Roux

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I hope to contribute meaningfully to policy and legislation on the health portfolio committee, including using its oversight role to probe hospitals and clinics in which massive healthcare failures are occurring in South Africa.

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene (1589)

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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