Communications Centre, a hi-tech facility designed to intercept electronic communications on a massive scale. A key criticism of the bill is that it does not sufficiently take into account the recommendations of the Matthews Report of 2008, which was...

These human rights violations were unacceptable in apartheid South Africa and are an affront to us in apartheid Israel." [IBID] October 23, 2001: Ronnie Kasrils, a Jew and a minister in the South African government, co-authors a petition "Not in My...

The Bill was first published for comment as the Protection of Information Bill of 2008 under the leadership of then minister of intelligence Ronnie Kasrils, and was needed to replace the apartheid-era Protection of Information Act of 1982. The latter...

Africans followed in his footsteps and left the country to undergo further military training. Mr Kasrils, who became known as "The Red Pimpernel", remained at the heart of the fight against apartheid. "The armed struggle was not the only factor that...

Both opposed the Bill. However, it was the ‘ravings’ of former Intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils against the Bill that particularly irked the ANC. It was ‘strange and shocking’, said the presidential spokesperson, that Kasrils appeared to want to...