PAIA |National Orders
Open Secrets submitted a PAIA request to the Presidency asking for any documentation on how and why Duma Ndlovu and Michael Horn nominations were accepted to receive the National Order Award.
Defending the right to access apartheid records
LHR and Open Secrets in Court Today defending the right to access apartheid records
SARB Files| Brigadier Johann Philip Derk Blaauw
In April 2021, after a 8-year battle, the SARB finally released the records of Jan Blaauw and Vito Palazzolo to Open Secrets. This is the result of a precedent-setting legal action that ensured the right of all South Africans to access information in the public interest.
SARB Files| Palazzolo
In April 2021, after a 8-year battle, the SARB finally released the records of Jan Blaauw and Vito Palazzolo to Open Secrets. This is the result of a precedent-setting legal action that ensured the right of all South Africans to access information in the public interest.
A recent court ruling could see many dark apartheid-era secrets coming to light
Geraldine Frieslaar and Hennie van Vuuren| Daily Maverick | 5 June 2020| Good news and glimmers of hope are in short supply these days. This is perhaps all the more reason to take note of a recent precedent-setting court judgement. In the past week, feisty pint-sized civil society organisations prevailed against the mighty South African…
Appeals Court ruling on Reserve Bank welcomed
In a landmark ruling, the SCA set aside a High Court judgment denying SA History Archive access to documents of suspected apartheid-era financial crimes
Application to reveal apartheid corruption secrets goes to supreme court
Estelle Ellis | Daily Maverick | 3 March 2020 The Supreme Court of Appeal on Tuesday heard the appeal by the SA History Archive Trust against a ruling that will allow the SA Reserve Bank to keep records of significant fraud, corruption and gold smuggling under the apartheid government a secret. In the latest chapter…
Set the Apartheid Secrets Free! – Statement in solidarity with SAHA
We, the undersigned organisations and individuals committed to justice for historical crimes and social justice in South Africa write in support of the South African History Archive. On Tuesday 03 March 2020 it faces the next round in an epic battle against the South African Reserve Bank in the Bloemfontein Supreme Court of Appeal. This…
Lifting the lid on apartheid-era economic crimes
Lloyd Gedye | New Frame | 21 February 2020 | The South African History Archive’s battle with the South African Reserve Bank to access information pertaining to alleged financial crimes will go to the Supreme Court of Appeal. What can the South African Reserve Bank’s archive of records tell South Africans about apartheid-era economic crime?…
Court order could bankrupt South African History Archive
Ra’eesa Pather | Mail & Guardian | 03 April 2018 | A high court judgement has left the South African History Archive (SAHA) reeling following a cost order which could put the organisation out of business. Protecting and preserving historical records, particularly those relating to the apartheid regime and activism against it, has been the…