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10 August 2010 |
| The opposition to the Protection of Information Bill currently before Parliament has been gaining momentum in the civil society sector in recent weeks. | |
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03 August 2010 |
| The response to the criticism of civil society on the Protection of Information Bill has left an unsatisfied conclusion to the public participation process. | |
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29 June 2010 |
| On 29 June 2010 SAHA and the Ceasefire Campaign held a joint press conference to reveal details of the South African arms exports to foreign countries over the past several years. | |
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27 June 2010 |
| Twenty five years ago, Matthew Goniwe, Fort Calata, Sparrow Mkonto and Sicelo Mhlauli were captured and murdered by security police. This marked a turning point for the South African struggle, but their deaths remained a mystery for decades to come. | |
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11 June 2010 |
| The Mail & Guardian have won an important decision in the North Gauteng High Court which could have a signifcant effect on PAIA implementation. | |
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09 June 2010 |
| SAHA and the Nelson Mandela Foundation have jointly made a further submission on the latest draft of the Protection of Information Bill. | |
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05 June 2010 |
| June 5 was designated World Environment Day in 1972, as a way of deepening consciousness of environmental concerns on a global level. | |
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31 May 2010 |
| The Freedom of Information Programme has continued to maintain and contribute not only to the local campaign for the right to know, but to its global campaign as well. | |
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25 May 2010 |
| Controversy about apartheid era government documents suggesting nuclear ties between Israel and South Africa, some of which are in the SAHA archives, hit the media this week. | |
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19 May 2010 |
| On 17 May 2010 SAHA reappeared in court to try and uncover reports from the NCACC which should already be public. These same questions have now been put to parliament for 2009, which has caused the need for a joint response from ODAC and SAHA. | |
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08 May 2010 |
| Three members of the Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation were abducted and murdered by Vlakplaas hit squad operatives on May 8, 1985, but details of their disappearance only emerged during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. | |
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03 May 2010 |
| With a special focus on the right to know, this year's World Press Freedom Day begs the question: what is access to information law in South Africa able to contribute to maintaining the freedom of our press? | |
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26 April 2010 |
| Film maker David Forbes has worked tirelessly for the past seven years, using PAIA to research the previously undisclosed story of the murder of the Cradock Four to produce both a full-length feature, and a made-for-television production. | |
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19 April 2010 |
| SAHA is developing a DVD of case studies aimed as demonstrating how different organisations and communities have used PAIA to assert or their human rights | |
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15 April 2010 |
| On the anniversary of its first human rights violations hearings at the East London City Hall in 1996, SAHA reflects on the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). | |
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29 March 2010 |
| On 26 March 2010 the Coordinating Committee of the Deputy Information Officers Forum hosted an Indaba in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. | |
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26 March 2010 |
| After significant work done by the NMF Memory Programme, the Rivonia Trial Database has been launched. It features wide-ranging material on the trial, including material from five SAHA collections. | |
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25 March 2010 |
| On 25 March 2010 SAHA, and others, will be participating in a talk with UK journalist Ben Leapman about the value of Freedom of Information Law for the media. | |
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23 February 2010 |
| Today, on 23 February 2010, the Constitutional Court ruled in favour of SAHA and its Coalition partners, holding that victims are required to participate in the Special Dispensation pardons process for such a process to be rational. | |
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23 February 2010 |
| In a landmark judgment, the Constitutional Court affirmed today that victims have a right to be heard in the special pardons process | |
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03 February 2010 |
| On 03 February 2010 SAHA, in asssociation with its Pardons Coalition members, released a press statement calling on the DA to apologise for its involvement in the exclusion of victims from the special pardons process. | |
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15 January 2010 |
| On 15 January 2010, SAHA released a statement to the Media notifying them that, through the Freedom of Information Programme, SAHA had received copies of Eugene De Kock's amnesty application to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. | |
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13 January 2010 |
| A renewed interest in the Presidential pardons process has created a need to restate the significance of Albutt v the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation and Others. | |
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12 January 2010 |
| On the anniversary of the Nangalembe Night Vigil Massacre, SAHA looks at the role of crime during South Africa's interregnum. | |
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08 December 2009 |
| ODAC is attempting to protect the rights of a shop steward, Mr Aphane, who was fired after alerting the Minister of Finance to serious financial irregularities within his Municipality. These actions significantly mark International Anti-Corruption Day, 9 | |
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01 December 2009 |
| 'I am responsible, we are responsible, South Africa is taking responsibility' | |
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01 December 2009 |
| Khulumani Support Group has launched a claim in a New York court against multi-national corporations which supported the Apartheid government. The United States has recently issued a Green Paper lending its support to the Khulumani case at this stage. | |
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17 November 2009 |
| On 17 November 2009 ODAC held the Rusty Padlock Awards to help identify the public bodies which consistently fail in their implementation of PAIA. | |
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11 November 2009 |
| On 10 November SAHA and a coalition of other civil society organisations appeared in the Constitutional Court to oppose an application by a former AWB member to restart the pardons process. | |
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20 October 2009 |
| SAHA will be acting as the Fifth Respondent in a case before the Constitutional Court concerning Presidential Pardons. | |
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07 October 2009 |
| The Nelson Mandela Foundation and SAHA have prepared a joint submission on the Protection of Personal Information Bill currently before parliament. | |
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27 September 2009 |
| Monday 28 September 2009 is the 7th International Right to Know Day. The aim of this day is to raise global awareness of each citizen's right to access information. | |
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15 September 2009 |
| Minister Radebe has ruled that the TRC's victims database as well as Eugene De Kock's amnesty application be released. | |
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20 August 2009 |
| The constitutional Court has ruled that section 78(2) of PAIA is unconstitutional | |
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23 July 2009 |
| Tuesday 21 July 2009 saw the inaugural PAIA Network meeting for the gender-based violence sector. | |
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09 July 2009 |
| SAHA is looking to fill the following contract posts.
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09 July 2009 |
| The Johannesburg launch of SAHA's new publication, Paper wars: access to information in South Africa, is to be held at Boekehuis on Saturday 18 July, at 12:30. | |
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03 June 2009 |
| SAHA is pleased to proclaim its congratulations to Biowatch for its landmark PAIA victory. | |
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02 June 2009 |
| 'Paper Wars goes beyond being a valuable repository of freedom of information lore. It reflects upon the ‘multiple faces of information governance' and indeed upon secrecy itself. | |
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01 June 2009 |
| SAHA seek access to General’s report on violence in Zimbabwe | |
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31 May 2009 |
| On 26 May 2009, SAHA submitted its Amicus Curiae in the Constitutional Court in support of the matter between Stefaans Conrad Brummer (applicant) and The Minister of Social Development (first respondent), Director General of the Department of Social Devel | |
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29 May 2009 |
| Virtually every country in the world has a history of anti-apartheid activity, in diverse forms, and the AAM archive resource is the first step towards a more comprehensive picture.
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02 May 2009 |
| On May 1st 1989, academic and activist David Webster was gunned down outside of his home in Troyeville on the east side of Johannesburg by apartheid agent Fredi.
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20 April 2009 |
| FOIPs Project Manager, Charlotte Young, has returned from a three week International Field trip to India where she met with individuals, local, national and international organizations, activists, information commissioners... | |
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10 February 2009 |
| Towards the end of 2008, FOIP attained details from the Department of Justice of the names of all the people who applied for Presidential Pardons in the most recent window period for such applications. | |
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21 January 2009 |
| During his first day as President of the United States of America President Obama has demonstrated to the rest of the world the need to commit to greater openness and accountability. | |
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07 December 2008 |
| SAHAs FOIP is in the initial stages of setting up a PAIA Civil Society Network. The initial meeting for the group will be held in the first quarter of 2009. | |
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12 November 2008 |
| SAHAs Freedom of Information Project: Capacity Building in the Community-based Sector (PAIA) has commenced a series of workshops... | |
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14 October 2008 |
| The committed work of SAHAs Freedom of Information Programme (FOIP) was recognised on Monday (29 September 08) night at the Golden Key Awards ceremony hosted by the South African Human Rights Commission.. | |
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08 September 2008 |
| SAHAs Freedom of Information Programme (FOIP) has been nominated by The Human Rights Foundation of South Africa for the 2008 Golden Key award for the effective use of the Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of 2000 (PAIA). | |
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17 August 2008 |
| SAHA's Freedom of Information Programme (FOIP) recently provided a short workshop on PAIA to over 40 Community-based organisations in the Environmental Sector. The workshop was offered as part of the FOIP Capacity Building Project. | |
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08 August 2008 |
| Despite SAHAs efforts to settle the maladministration conducted by the Department of the Presidency in connection with the PAIA Request for records concerning Presidential Pardons granted in 2006-2007... | |
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24 July 2008 |
| SAHA has been successful in attaining records detailing the crimes for which 515 individuals were granted Presidential Pardons in 2006-2007. However this is not a simple case... | |
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30 June 2008 |
| In response to an access to information request submitted by SAHA in 2006, statistics released this week by South Africas Department of Home Affairs show the number of Zimbabweans... | |
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08 May 2008 |
| In response to the Internal Appeal submitted by SAHA on 4 February 2008, the Department of the Presidency (PRE) has recently sent out 515 letters to the individuals who were granted a Presidential Pardon in 2006-2007 | |
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23 April 2008 |
| Funding has been approved by the Ford Foundation for SAHA's pilot project entitled FOIP Capacity Building Project. This pilot project will run from 1 April 2008 - 30 September 2009. | |
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12 March 2008 |
| SAHA goes to court on 13 March 2008 in relation to its application for access under PAIA to Military Intelligence records in the possession of the Ministry of Defence and the unlawful transfer of these requested records to Zimbabwe. | |
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09 February 2008 |
| This year, FOIP will move in a new direction towards more outreach work through the commencement of a PAIA pilot project in the community based sector. | |
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03 February 2008 |
| The Freedom of Information Programme at SAHA has submitted an appeal in response to the Department of the Presidencys recent refusal to release further detail of the '515 Presidential Pardons... | |
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30 October 2007 |
| SAHA is pleased to announce the employment of a new staff member, Charlotte Young, who will be working as a Research and Outreach Officer in the Freedom of Information Programme. | |
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17 September 2007 |
| SAHA has been refused access to a listing of security police files held by the National Archives on the basis that disclosure will breach the privacy rights of third parties. | |
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06 September 2007 |
| Two expert referees will decide what information should be released to the public about Eskom's nuclear Pebble Bed Modular Reactor development, the Supreme Court of Appeal held. | |
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04 September 2007 |
| The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC/Commission) has embarked on a campaign to advance and create awareness of the right to access information. | |
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04 September 2007 |
| On September 12th democrats all over the world and throughout our country people will remember one of the most tragic days in our long and brutal history. | |
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27 July 2007 |
| Leadership has become the most vexing question of our times. The crises in Zimbabwe demands the attention of contemporary public debate - what role should South Africa play and what is our collective responsibility?
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27 July 2007 |
| In June 2007 SAHA made a submission to the Ministerial Review Commission on Intelligence following its call for papers on a number of topics including the balance between secrecy and transparency of intelligence bodies. | |
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27 July 2007 |
| Oxford academic Theodore Zeldin argues that conversation is crucial if societies are to realize their full potential. His work spans across the social spectrum - from intimate relationships to the world of work and politics. | |
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14 June 2007 |
| Red on Black tells the story of the graphics and visual art movement that emerged around South Africa's struggle for liberation and human dignity. | |
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07 June 2007 |
| Leadership has become the most vexing question of our times. | |
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18 April 2007 |
| Biowatch South Africa will appear in the Pretoria High Court on Monday to appeal against costs awarded to Monsanto SA (Pty) Ltd. | |
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14 March 2007 |
| This lecture is the first in a new series initiated by Dr Xolela Mangcu, Visiting Fellow of The Constitution of Public Intellectual Life Research Project, titled, Which Way Next? | |
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19 February 2007 |
| In mid-December 2006, Earthlife Africa Jhb sent a Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) request to Eskom regarding the supply of electricity to Alcan's planned Coega Aluminium Smelter. | |
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15 December 2006 |
| On Wednesday 13 December 2006 the South African History Archive filed the replying affidavit in its case against the Minister of Defence (the Minister), pursuing the return of military intelligence records transferred to Zimbabwe. | |
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12 December 2006 |
| On 28 September 2006, International Right to Know Day, The South African History Archive was presented with the "Golden Key Award" for the organisation which has been a frequent user or promoter of PAIA. | |
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01 November 2006 |
| SAHA and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation are planning an upcoming Workshop focusing on approaches to "Outreach" utilised by heritage, archival, museum and education practitioners in South Africa. | |
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14 September 2006 |
| The South African History Archive and David Forbes claims victory against the Minister of Justice in their battle to gain access to records of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Amnesty Committee. | |
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