The slow death of ‘politics as usual’?
Thursday, 12 November 2015
For the first time in recent memory, a minister of Cabinet rank was forced to tender his resignation following a massive public outcry over his attempted defence of a private company implicated in a major arms scandal. After five days of intense public and civil society pressure and the threat of mutiny within their own ranks, Government leaders realised the wolf was at their door.
Thursday, 12 November 2015
In the end it took only five days for the unthinkable to happen.
For the first time in recent memory, a minister of Cabinet rank was forced to tender his resignation following a massive public outcry over his attempted defence of a private company implicated in a major arms scandal. After five days of intense public and civil society pressure and the threat of mutiny within their own ranks, Government leaders realised the wolf was at their door.
