Nadine Gordimer has written about the Protection of State Information Bill in The New York Review of Books: The regime of racism in South Africa was maintained not only by brutality—guns, violence, restrictive laws. It was upheld by elaborately extensive...
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From the Mail & Guardian November 25th, 2011 During this week’s Black Tuesday protest outside Parliament, activist Zackie Achmat lowered the South African flag to half-mast. A policeman with a roll of crime-scene tape in his hand stepped forward as...
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PEN International is deeply concerned that South Africa’s Information Protection Bill still embraces too much “secrecy” despite changes Delegates at the annual congress of PEN International in Belgrade from 12-18 September 2011 expressed deep concern that while recent amendments to...
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1. China 2. China – Uyghur 3. Cuba 4. Eritrea 5. Honduras 6. Iran – Kurdish 7. Iran 8. Mexico – Killings 9. Mexico 10. Nepal 11. Russia 12. South Africa 13. Sri Lanka 14. Tunisia 15. Turkey – Kurdish...
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Anthony Fleischer, President SA PEN One of the evils of apartheid was “information classification” and the State’s efforts to control the flow of news and comment. I recall the Rand Daily Mail‘s resistance to such trends in apartheid days, and...
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