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Amandla! Movies: "Dear Mandela"
Thursday, 03 May 2012 07:43
Dear Mandela is a gripping documentary that shows how the SA government is trying to 'eradicate the slums' by evicting shack dwellers from their homes at gunpoint, in scenes eerily reminiscent of apartheid-era forced removals.
It will be screened for the first time in the Western Cape Tuesday 15th May, at 6pm at the Alternative Information Development Centre.
Parliament's Secrecy Bill committee silences AIDC for highlighting trend towards authoritarianism
Thursday, 29 March 2012 09:52
MPs of the ad hoc committee on the Protection of State Information Bill (the Secrecy Bill) today prevented the Alternative Information Development Centre (AIDC) from making its presentation on the Secrecy Bill because the content was "political".
Mark Weinberg of AIDC was interrupted early in his presentation when his submission noted the "rise of conservative authoritarianism in the context of growing unemployment in South Africa" and "the rise of the Secorcrats" in the post-Polokwane dispensation.
As the committee debated at length whether or not to allow the presentaation to continue, Weinberg argued that he was only presenting the contents of AIDC's written submission that the organisation was invited to present (see the AIDC submission here).
Outside the Committee hearing Weinberg remarked that "this is more evidence of the undemocratic culture gripping our government. We came to parliament offering socio-economic and political context to deliberations on the Bill.
We came in good faith that the Committee would listen and make the necessary changes to the Secrecy Bill. After listening to defensive questions from MPs all day we are leaving very concerned about the Committees capacity to amend the Secrecy Bill - and deep concerns about the health of our democratic parliament".
In the course of the debate it became clear that MPs had not read the AIDC submission and were suprised by its contents.
Read Parliament's statement on the AIDC presentation here.
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