Defending the right to access apartheid records
LHR and Open Secrets in Court Today defending the right to access apartheid records
Apartheid Banks: Explainer videos
The following is a recap of the work we’ve done on the Apartheid banks. Otherwise known as Belgium’s Kredietbank (now known as KBC Group) and its sister bank in Luxembourg (then known as KBL, but changed its name to Quintet Private Bank in 2020 shortly after Open Secrets handed over its docket to the NPA).…
Apartheid Banks Docket: Letter to the National Director of Public Prosecutions
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Thamsanqa Malinga | Zondo has exposed ANC donor patronage network
City Press | Thamsanqa Malinga | 30 May 2021 The recent financial woes of the governing party in failing to meet its obligations towards staff salaries is an issue whose surface has merely been scratched. Much needs to be interrogated, but the sight of a once-glorious movement becoming cash-strapped does not require us to lift…
Apartheid Banks: NPA Docket
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Justice for apartheid economic crime: Start with the bankers
Justice for apartheid economic crime: Start with the bankers Today many civil society organisations jointly call on the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to crack down on corporations who assisted the apartheid state and profited from economic crimes under apartheid. To date they have escaped any accountability for their crimes in supporting and sustaining apartheid –…
Justice for Ahmed Timol and other apartheid victims – A statement by the South African Coalition for Transitional Justice
Justice for Ahmed Timol and other apartheid victims Press Statement by the South African Coalition for Transitional Justice The South African Coalition for Transitional Justice (SACTJ) notes with deep concern the decision by the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) that it does not intend to pursue charges against two apartheid Security Branch police officers, Seth Sons…
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
SABC News | 31 May 2020 | The South African History Archive has described the Supreme Court of Appeal ruling ordering the South African Reserve Bank to release certain apartheid-era records, as a victory for democracy.In a landmark ruling, the SCA set aside a High Court judgment denying SA History Archive access to documents of…
Speaking truth to power: Dulcie September and Daphne Caruana Galizia
Neroli Price | Maverick Life | 29 May 2020 These podcasts pay homage to two women who stood up for what they believed in and paid with their life for uncovering the truth. Dulcie September and Daphne Caruana Galizia were from different countries and different eras, but they both stood up for what they believed…