Glebelands Hostel

I bumped into Philani* during yet another fruitless visit to a public hospital, where I had accompanied someone who was attempting to obtain follow-up medical treatment after being tortured by police last year.

I do not usually give much credence to government officials’ whitewashing, excuses or blame games.

“The protection of [media] sources is a basic principle in a democratic and free society” - Code of Ethics and Conduct for South African Print and Online Media (effective from January 1, 2016)

Our country’s battered human rights record was dealt another blow on the evening of 22 March, when anti-mining activist and Amadiba Crisis Committee Chairperson, Sikhosiphi Bazooka Rhadebe, was gunned down in another seemingly state-sponsored hit.