Surveillance
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Taxi boss Msibi, Motsumi, KT Molefe and Sergeant Nkosi plotted to sell phone-grabbers to eSwatini
Evidence leader Matthew Chaskalson detailed WhatsApp exchanges involving taxi boss Jotham “King Mswazi” Msibi and Sergeant Fannie Nkosi in which they discussed an alleged plan to…
South Africa is sleepwalking into becoming a surveillance state
Facial recognition technology is widespread, eroding privacy and anonymity, echoing apartheid-era controls, with lax legal enforcement
Aid cuts, including by UK, undermine progress on fight against superbugs
Antimicrobial resistance threatens global health and economic stability. Urgent investment in surveillance, innovation and stewardship is critical to containment
Editorial: The fault in our Starlink narratives
What can Musk offer and what price are we willing to pay?
New strain of mpox cases surge in DRC and neighbouring countries
The Clade Ib strain has already jumped borders, with cases being reported in Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda and Kenya in the last two weeks
How HONOR’s Magic V2 protects your privacy
In today’s digital world, keeping personal information private is more important than ever
China ‘spy balloons’ fly high and are very hard to detect, says expert
Exercise Mosi II an opportunity for spying on Russian, China military capabilities, says expert
Right of reply: A rejoinder to the Zenprop chief executive about Amazon’s HQ
Zenprop chief executive James Tannenberger, who stands to benefit financially from the River Club development, failed to address the substantive points of our original article
How state surveillance can strengthen citizen dissent
Authoritarian regimes use spying to deter protest. But this can encourage people to stand up for what they believe in
Top greenhouse gas emitter South Africa earns kudos for new protection measures
The Healthy NDCs Scorecard has recognised South Africa’s efforts in revising its nationally determined contributions to mitigate climate change
Gun control in South Africa: tightening the law, and more
Improving firearms control legislation is clearly one such needed intervention to prevent the further diversion of legal guns into the hands of criminals
Housing activists want probe into City of Cape Town ‘spying’
The City of Cape Town admits it monitors the social-media pages of housing activists but denies that this is spying, as tensions surrounding land occupations increase
Censorship, surveillance could be the biggest rights challenges post Covid-19
The impacts of these infringements could last well beyond the life of the Covid-19 pandemic
Viral authoritarianism during the Covid-19 pandemic
Authoritarian leaders have often used natural disasters to tighten their grasp on power. We are seeing the same happen during the coronavirus crisis, in dictatorships and…
The pandemic is being used to erode democratic freedoms. Civil society must fight back
Both authoritarian and democratic governments are responding to the coronavirus crisis by instituting frightening new powers