IN AN admittedly hard-hitting piece, former anti-apartheid activist Jay Naidoo tackles issues of good governance, which he says is our right, not a privilege. "Our demands for fundamental liberties, encompassing  human, labour, gender, sexual orientation, community and land rights" he says "are m...

Memorandum from Senior Commanders and Commissars of the former military wing of the ANC, Umkhonto we Sizwe. 1. We, the undersigned, are all committed cadres of the African National Congress, having served our glorious movement for many decades. Throughout our lives, and whenever the need arose, w...

This is a guest post by Jane Duncan who is a member the Right 2 Know Campaign, a South African campaigns group that is a member of the Privacy International Network. On 23rd March the United Nations Human Rights Committee released its assessment on South Africa’s compliance with the International...

DECISION: APPLICATION FOR LEAVE TO APPEAL [1]     Mr David Robert Lewis (“applicant”) seeks leave to appeal the Ruling of the Ombudsman dated 5 February 2016 dismissing applicant’s complaints against Independent Newspapers (“respondent”). [2]     The complaints followed two articles, the second b...

THERE was something unbelievably cool about Nelson Mandela's South Africa. It wasn't merely that a country on the Southern tip of Africa, which had spent the past forty years in the racial stone-age, had made a giant leap forward into non-racial democracy, or that after decades of war and civil c...

SEVERAL CASES before South Africa's courts, challenge the current prohibition regime, which has been in force since the apartheid era, where it was considered a "demotivating factor for white conscripts" into the SADF, since it encouraged intermingling with "blacks". In addition to the well-publi...