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...
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Stop the draconian Cybercrime Bill
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...
Apartheid-era bank bail-outs make headlines
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...
Kenny Motsamai finally free
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....
Worknet, Sangonet & the struggle for digital freedom
FROM two floppy disks smuggled into South Africa in the late 1980s, to an NGO which continues to play a major role in responding to the Information Technology (IT) requirements of the NGO sector in South Africa, this is the unique story of SANGONeT. In the late 1980s, not long after Bill Gates ha...
The Giant is Falling
TWENTY-two years ago, when Nelson Mandela became the first democratically elected leader of a South Africa still emerging from the shadow of apartheid, hopes were high that the hero of the anti-apartheid struggle would lead the nation into an era of equality and prosperity. Three years after his...
