The corporations and regulators who enable profiteering from grave crimes such as genocide, apartheid, and human rights abuses
Shaazia Ebrahim | A number of international banks funded the apartheid regime and its military through credit. It has been one year since Open Secrets, along with the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS), demanded accountability from the international banks in Belgium and Luxembourg that financed apartheid. The organisations submitted a complaint to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) National Contact Points (NCPs)…
Tabitha Paine | Lee-Ann Bruce Without the help of European banks, the apartheid government would not have been able to buy arms and continue its campaign of violence and oppression. Between 1977 and 1994, countless people lost their lives while the banks essentially profited from their deaths. What can be done to hold the banks…
One year after CALS and Open Secrets brought to light evidence that European banks profited from apartheid, no decision has been made on whether to investigate
In the fourth episode of the podcast They Killed Dulcie, the time has come to look at the evidence. What was Dulcie investigating when she was killed?
Sound Africa’s Rasmus Bitsch talks to Lester Kiewit about the fourth episode of They Killed Dulcie, Prisons of the Past.
In the third episode of “They Killed Dulcie,” we delve into the world of informants and double agents and how the apartheid security forces used them to infiltrate the liberation movements in South Africa and abroad. It remains a sensitive topic in South African politics today – some comrades were also collaborators. Following the assassination…
The podcast, They Killed Dulcie has gripped my imagination over the last few weeks. It tries to uncover the mysterious circumstances around the death of the anti-apartheid activist in paris in 1988. In the third episode of “They Killed Dulcie,” the producers Rasmus Bitsch and Neo Rakgajane delve into the world of informants and double…
Mail & Guardian | Lester Kiewit A new effort is being made to uncover the truth surrounding the 1988 assassination of exiled ANC official Dulcie September in Paris, France. September was gunned down outside the ANC’s Paris office on March 28. She was shot five times in the head with a .22 silenced rifle. To…
The second episode of the podcast series They Killed Dulcie continues where episode one left off. The journey begins in a Parisian suburb, but ends in Johannesburg, where former Apartheid era spy Craig Williamson opens the door to the murky world of espionage. Dulcie’s childhood friend, activist Betty van der Heyden recounts the story of…
A new podcast series by Sound Africa and Open Secrets,They Killed Dulcie, draws from research by Open Secrets for the book Apartheid Guns and Money: A tale of profit. This is the first episode of a podcast series about Dulcie September’s life and assassination. The first episode begins in Cape Town in the 1930s, and ends…