{
  "id": 15761957,
  "title": "An appeal to civil society: Do not give a collapsing order another offramp",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/an-appeal-to-civil-society-do-not-give-a-collapsing-order-another",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-20T15:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "IOL",
    "slug": "iol",
    "url": "https://iol.co.za/thepost/news/2026-10-20-an-appeal-to-civil-society-do-not-give-a-collapsing-order-another-offramp/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Jay Naidoo argues that professionalised civil society risks becoming more accountable to donors and institutions than to the communities it claims to represent—and challenges organisations to disclose their funding, agendas and results.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}