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An ANC and SACP member, Ronnie Kasrils joined the fight against the apartheid regime, in 1960. A founding member of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) and former minister of intelligence from 2004 to 2008, Kasrils served from 1985 to 1989 on the ANC’s Politico-Military Council....
The High Court in London will soon to decide whether Julian Assange is to be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of sexual misconduct. At the appeal hearing in July, Ben Emmerson QC, counsel for the defence, described the whole saga as "crazy". Sweden's chief...
‘The last time I spoke to my mum, she said “mwanangu tichiri musango” – meaning my son, we are still in the bush,’ said 'China', a Zimbabwean civil society activist based in South Africa.In late March this year, China's mother was forced to flee death in Mbare, on the...
Surely the imperialists would put a stop to WikiLeaks’ exposure of their shady ways.Much of the front-page news from around the world over the last year and more cannot be understood, perhaps, without factoring in the role and effect of WikiLeaks. But today, despite...
Glimpses of clear sunlight in a long winter only indicate that summer is possible, but are not summer itself (not even spring). The Alternative Information Development Centre (AIDC) welcomes that the government’s New Growth Path (NGP) document recognizes the hard...
A responsive and accountable democracy that can meet the basic needs of our people is built upon transparency and the free flow of information. The gains of South Africans’ struggle for freedom are threatened by the Secrecy Bill (the Protection of Information Bill)...
The Alternative Information Development Centre (AIDC) statement on the threats to Press Freedom notes that - as a result of ANC policy - South Africa's media is highly concentrated and services a small section of the population. It also highlights the need to defend...
By Terry BellIn 1993, as the prospect of a non-racist democracy loomed, the last apartheid president, F. W. de Klerk and his minions, ordered the destruction of tonnes of files, microfilm, audio and computer tapes and disks. Information about state-sponsored murders,...
The government is in the process of passing a law that will limit access to government information undermining transparency, accountability, and media freedom in South Africa. The Protection of Information Bill allows every organ of state - from government departments...