Advocacy: New privacy rules for Covid-19 tracking a step in the right direction, but …
After the vague and worrying policy on phone-tracking, officials have tightened the regulations significantly. But let’s see what comes out of the oven.
Advocacy comment: Digital privacy in the time of pandemics
The state’s first move to use phone tracking to fight covid-19 lacks key details and safeguards against abuse.
Advocacy release: CR17 – court kicks transparency question into touch
Ruling in president versus protector matter a setback, but the game’s not over.
Advocacy: Open letter to Bheki Cele, Rica victim
The minister of police is in the odd position of upholding the same spying system that targeted him.
Advocacy release: Concourt to hear amaB’s Rica challenge
Our challenge to the abuse of the state’s surveillance capacity is coming to a head.
Advocacy release: In CR17 case, amaB asks the court to uphold transparency
We’re not taking sides in the dispute between the president and the public protector. But the gaping hole in the transparency fence must be fixed.
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
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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
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