Advocacy release: amaB and FM launch application to access Zuma’s tax records
We have initiated public interest litigation challenging two Acts’ tax secrecy provisions.
Advocacy release: AmaBhungane weighs in on CR17 dispute
The amaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism has applied to join the legal fray between Cyril Ramaphosa and Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane over the president’s failure to declare very large donations received by the CR17 ANC election campaign.
Advocacy release: No to Steinhoff secrecy
AmaBhungane and Financial Mail join forces to take on corporate “cover-up”.
Advocacy: Civil society organisations gravely concerned with the chilling effect of persistent PAIA non-compliance
The ATI Network is a coalition of civil society and media organisations, who have since 2008 worked collaboratively to advance the constitutional right to information as provided for in the Promotion of Access to Information Act of 2000.
Advocacy analysis: Inside amaBhungane’s landmark ruling on surveillance
The constitution sets the bar, but can our spies and our state rise to the challenge?
Advocacy: Q&A with AmaB’s Karabo Rajuili on party funding transparency
AmaBhungane advocacy coordinator Karabo Rajuili recently addressed the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) on draft regulations for the Political Party Funding Act. She focused on sections of the Act that impact the free flow of information and freedom of the media.
Advocacy: The South African government’s thinking on surveillance law is regressive
At the heart of the problem is the country’s main communication surveillance law, the Regulation of Interception of Communications Act (Rica).
Advocacy: Spying case is start of SA’s privacy reckoning
AmaBhungane’s constitutional challenge to SA’s surveillance law RICA in court.
Advocacy: AmaBhungane calls on parliament to halt finalisation of PIC Amendment Bill
In written submissions, amaBhungane has urged parliament to amend the PIC Act to allow for public access to records of the PIC’s investment decisions.
Advocacy: A call for disclosure of beneficial owners
The current Companies Amendment Bill revision offers an “ideal opportunity” to include a beneficial ownership disclosure.
Advocacy: AmaBhungane condemns Tanzanian authorities’ harassment and detention of Angela Quintal and her CPJ colleague, Muthoki Mumo
Quintal is the Africa Program coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and an amaBhungane board member.
Advocacy: AmaB approaches Nugent on Sars using tax law against journalists
Press release.
Advocacy: Media welcome Constitutional Court ruling on party funding
Media is now calling for greater transparency in the Political Party Funding Bill.
Advocacy: AmaB wins access to information battle over Gupta Waterkloof landing
Judge Tati Makgoka of the high court in Pretoria described the DoD’s delays and failures to respond as “unpardonable’” and “unconscionable”.
Advocacy: AmaB challenges snooping law
Press Release
Advocacy: amaBhungane joins international campaign for politicians’ tax transparency
Are MPs paying their fair share of tax?
Advocacy: Report shows continued non-compliance with PAIA
PAIA is a powerful tool in the hands of investigative journalists, and the media in general.
Advocacy Update: Victory for amaB and civil society in push for nuclear transparency
Parliament’s energy portfolio committee briefing on the procurement of nuclear power stations will be open.
Advocacy: Courts hand two info rights victories to amaB in a day
The amaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism obtained two court judgments on Thursday, May 12, solidly reaffirming the public’s right to […]
Advocacy: Company shareholders’ information: Privacy vs public’s right to information
A potentially precedent-setting dispute on the right to access information on unlisted firms’ shareholdings came before the Supreme Court of Appeal.
Advocacy: Unqualified public access to the ownership of companies is a vital tool in the fight against corruption, and is vital to upholding transparency.
AmaBhungane joins Supreme Court appeal for company ownership transparency.