By Mansoor Jaffer When it comes to freedom of expression there is a need for South Africans to protect our gains and broaden the right to even more people. In order to move forward, we have to take on the challenges of the present and learn the lessons from our past. As part of our […]

Key Findings Upon the investigation, the Ombud has established that: A total of ninety-four (94+) and not thirty-six (36) mentally ill patients (as initially and commonly reported publicly in the media) died between 23 March 2016 and 19 December 2016 in Gauteng Province. This total number of 94 s...

KHULUMANI reports that our Parliament is on track to 'review and possibly repeal more than 1,800 apartheid-era laws.' 'In 2016, the programming committee of the National Assembly mandated Parliament’s legal services with identifying all apartheid-era laws or sections in legislation, that could be...

IN OCTOBER of 2015, I warned readers of the many dangers inherent to the deeply flawed and draconian Cybercrime Bill, Medialternatives was one of the first publications in the country to break the story, followed by an opinion piece written by myself and published by the Cape Times, I therefore f...

FOR OVER two decades the truth about apartheid-era bank bail-outs, corporate slush-funds, financial life-boats, espionage and dirty tricks was suppressed by the mainstream press. The country's state broadcaster, the venerable SABC even went so far as pulling the plug on a documentary by Silvia Vo...

ONE year after convicted freedom fighter Kenny Motsamai was released on day parole, the state has lifted restrictions, allowing Motsamai to walk to freedom. Member of the Azanian People's Liberation Army (Apla), Kenny Motsamai, was released on day parole from Boksburg Prison in January last year....