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On Friday, 2 March 2018, the Right2Know campaign stands in solidarity with the activists challenging the Apartheid-era Intimidation Act at the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein. The SCA is hearing an appeal on two cases of activists who are charged under the Intimidation Act 72 of 1982. r2k.org.za/
In particular it is incredible that Ramaphosa has appointed a deputy president, and therefore potential president, who has for years been implicated in of some of the most serious crimes when Premier of Mpumalanga. These crimes included alleged bribery in the awarding of contracts for World Cup facilities, threatening and spying on journalists and drawing up a hit-list of political opponents, of whom at least 15 were assassinated while no-one was arrested for any of these murders. saftu.org.za/
The South African National Editors’ Forum has condemned the raid at author Jacques Pauw’s Riebeek Kasteel home, saying it is a threat to media freedom. In his book, The President’s Keepers, Pauw revealed the existence of a parallel intelligence network within the State Security Agency. news24.com/
The SABC, the parent companies of the Sunday Times, and 26 other media companies have been referred for prosecution on price fixing. Media24, the local parent company of Business Insider South Africa, is among those implicated. businessinsider.co.za/
South African organisations continue to report the highest instances of economic crime in the world with economic crime reaching its highest level over the past decade, according to PwC’s biennial Global Economic Crime Survey releas. iol.co.a/
A group of farm workers, mostly women, demonstrated at the gates to the Stellenbosch Wine Festival on Saturday. They sang and held posters reading: “No toilet in vineyards” and “Stop poison”. They tried to enter the Coetzenburg Sports Grounds where the annual event was held. groundup.org.za/
MATUSA is appalled at the brutal actions of the South African Police who shot and injured a number of our members earlier today. Workers were striking as a result of the municipality not paying the February salaries. wwmp.org.za/
 The Film and Publication Board on Thursday distanced themselves from the Appeals Tribunal following a law suit filed by the Inxeba – The Wound producers. The board says they do not agree with the Appeals Tribunal’s X18 rating of the film, calling it ‘censorship’, and distances itself from the decision. citizen.co.za/ |
Lundgren said he thought electronics companies wanted the reuse of computers to be difficult so that consumers would buy new ones. “I started learning what planned obsolescence was,” he said, “and I realized companies make laptops that only lasted as long as the insurance would last. It infuriated me. That’s not what a healthy society should have.” 
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A truly revolutionary film would have seen T’Challa dig his claws into U.S. drones and send his woman warriors at Africom. Instead, the last act of the film consists of Africans hacking each other to death to preserve the global status quo. 