For every R100 and 100 hours spent responding to disaster, spend R5 and five hours making sure it goes away. SAMNET on root causes, alcohol, and where our giving actually goes. [...]
Fourteen parties declared donations in the first quarter of 2024, in amounts that do not add up. Parties are public entities and should declare all income, expenditure and assets. [...]
Australia is debating a full ban on gambling advertising. South Africa is not debating anything. SAMNET repeats its call for proactive legislation. [...]
GroundUp asked ten departments about the billions they spend and published what came back. Several were in breach of their own disclosure policy. [...]
R47.2 billion in revenue, more than half of it online, treatment referrals doubled and self-exclusion requests up 240%. SAMNET calls for tobacco-style advertising restrictions. [...]
When protesters reached the Abdullah Quilliam Mosque in Liverpool, local non-Muslim residents stood with the Musalees. That did not happen by accident — it took years of engagement. [...]
SAMNET’s 2024 call to Ulema, Imaams and Trustees: open your Musjid from 2pm to 4pm on 24 September and host your neighbours. [...]
SAMNET on the drop-off in critical reporting on Palestine, the over-reliance on agency feeds, and the UN findings that went largely uncovered. [...]
SAMNET called on UP stakeholders to write to the university leadership urging it to break its relationships with Israeli academic institutions — five minutes of activism, respectfully and factually put. [...]
By-elections are poorly supported, so small blocks of votes decide them. The first requirement is to be registered — and it can be done online in minutes. [...]
SAMNET calls on stakeholders to commit 5% — or at least 1% — of charitable giving to preventing the root causes of disaster, rather than only responding to it. [...]
By-elections are small, poorly attended and often decided by fifty votes. A single mosque or group of families that interviews the candidates can decide the ward — and build a relationship with the winner. [...]