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The lawyer who sued multinationals for colluding with the apartheid

By The Breakfast Team Human Rights Lawyer and Author of Class Action, Charles Abrahams says he was never comfortable with what had come out of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He says what was fundamentally missing in the TRC hearings were the corporates that had kept the apartheid system afloat through arms and funding. He added that all those who came before the Truth and Reconciliation Proclaimed innocence. Charles Abrahams […]

today07/03/2019

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How does South Africa’s criminal justice system deal with young offenders?

By The Breakfast Team The brutal murder of Thoriso Thahamane was recorded on a cellphone video which has since gone viral, sparking public outrage. One of the suspects arrested, a 15-year-old Limpopo high school pupil, is facing another charge for attempted murder after he allegedly stabbed another person last year. Speaking to Advocate Mzo Madolo who is a prosecutor with the NPA specialising in Child Justice says children under the age of […]

today01/03/2019

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South Africa’s 5th Democratic Election Promulgated

By Tunicia Phillips The Independent Electoral Commission has welcomed the proclamation of the general election date for May, 8. President Cyril Ramaphosa promulgated the date yesterday. The first legal consequence of the proclamation is that the voters roll closed at midnight last night. The election time table will now come into effect and is expected to be gazetted soon. The IEC says this also triggers the opening of candidate nomination […]

today27/02/2019

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To vote or not to Vote? – Young People weigh in #Elections2019

By Zuko Komisa The right to vote is one of the most basic and fundamental rights in a democracy. In South Africa, the electoral system is based on party-list proportional representation. A system that has made it very difficulty for the electorate to hold their representatives accountable for their action. The issue of voting for young people arises in most instances due to the disillusions created by political parties making […]

today20/02/2019

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Solly Mapaila explains what he meant by Sobukwe received preferential treatment

The Breakfast Team Team The South African Communist Party’s second deputy general-secretary, Solly Mapaila, spoke to David O'Sullivan on Breakfast With David to explain what he meant when he said Pan Africanist Congress founder, Robert Sobukwe, received preferential treatment from the apartheid government on Robben Island. [WATCH] SACP’s Solly Mapaila explains how Robert Sobukwe had ‘special privileges’ on Robben Island. ‘He had a full house to himself ⁦@davidosullie⁩ #BreakfastwithDavid pic.twitter.com/x0eeS1ALpS […]

today14/02/2019

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Eskom problems are self inflicted, SACP’s Solly Mapaila

By Breakfast with David Team The South African Communist Party says while the majority of issues that are facing power utility Eskom were self-inflicted, the power utility cannot be allowed to fail. The SACP’s second Deputy General Secretary Solly Mapaila was in conversation with David O’Sullivan this morning on Breakfast With David. [WATCH] SACP’s Solly Mapaila says the crisis at Eskom is self inflicted #BreakfastiwthDavid pic.twitter.com/IrugCcEOoo — Kaya 959 Talk […]

today13/02/2019

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When Mandela was released from Victor Vester

By David O'Sullivan I was watching the coverage of the 29th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s release on TV, and I remembered that on this day 29 years ago it poured with rain in Joburg. It was a Sunday, and I was in Soweto outside Mandela’s pokey house on Vilakazi Street. That was a crazy weekend. I was working at Capital Radio, where we had been anticipating Mandela’s release ever since […]

today12/02/2019

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Conversations with Dr Sindi Van Zyl on Medical Negligence

By Zuko Komisa Medical expert Dr. Sindi Van Zyl has officially started her once a month residency on Kaya 959’s Uncaptured. This month she had a conversation with Kgomotso Matsunyane and Ndumiso Ngcobo on the Provincial health services risk that amounts to over R80.4bn in medical negligence claims. Treasury data shows there are about 14,000 outstanding cases and consequently should 2017-18 claims be successful, it is projected that this would amount […]

today11/02/2019

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Is South Africa on the cusp of a major shift in energy policy?

By: Hartmut Winkler, University of Johannesburg Can South Africa keep the lights on? flickr/ Paul Saad   South Africans go to the polls this year. And for the first time the country’s energy future is becoming a significant subject of contestation. This is because the public is now much more aware of the ongoing crisis at the national electricity utility Eskom and the economic impact this threatens to have on […]

today05/02/2019

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THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT FORMS PART OF KAYA 959’S TERMS OF USE POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ANY TERM OF THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT, YOU MUST CEASE YOUR ACCESS OF THIS WEBSITE IMMEDIATELY. 

POPIA Act – To promote the protection of personal information processed by public and private bodies; to introduce certain conditions so as to establish minimum requirements for the processing of personal information; to provide for the establishment of an Information Regulator to exercise certain powers and to perform certain duties and functions in terms of this Act and the Promotion of Access to Information Act, 2000; to provide for the issuing of codes of conduct; to provide for the rights of persons regarding unsolicited electronic communications and automated decision making; to regulate the flow of personal information across the borders of the Republic; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

RECOGNISING THAT—

  • section 14 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, provides that everyone has the right to privacy;
  • the right to privacy includes a right to protection against the unlawful collection, retention, dissemination and use of personal information;
  • the State must respect, protect, promote and fulfil the rights in the Bill of Rights;

AND BEARING IN MIND THAT—

  • consonant with the constitutional values of democracy and openness, the need for economic and social progress, within the framework of the information society, requires the removal of unnecessary impediments to the free flow of information, including personal information;

AND IN ORDER TO—

  • regulate, in harmony with international standards, the processing of personal information by public and private bodies in a manner that gives effect to the right to privacy subject to justifiable limitations that are aimed at protecting other rights and important interests,
  1. Definitions and Interpretation

1.1.“Personal Information” means information relating to an identifiable, living, natural person and where it is applicable, identifiable, existing juristic person, including all information as defined in the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013. 

1.2  Parliament assented to POPIA on 19 November 2013. The commencement date of section 1, Part A of Chapter 5, section 112 and section 113 was 11 April 2014. The commencement date of the other sections was 1 July 2020 (with the exception of section 110 and 114(4). The President of South Africa has proclaimed the POPI commencement date to be 1 July 2020.

 
1.3. “Processing” means the creation, generation, communication, storage, destruction of personal information as more fully defined in the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013.  

1.4. “You” or the “user” means any person who accesses and browses this website for any purpose. 

1.4. “Website” means the website of the KAYA 959 at URL www.kaya959.co.za or such other URL as KAYA 959 may choose from time to time.   

  1. Status and Amendments

2.1. KAYA 959 respects your privacy. This privacy policy statement sets out KAYA 959’s information gathering and dissemination practices in respect of the Website. 

2.2. This Privacy Policy governs the processing of personal information provided to KAYA 959 through your use of the Website. 

2.3. Please note that, due to legal and other developments, KAYA 959 may amend these terms and conditions from time to time.  

  1. Processing of Personal Information

3.1. By providing your personal information to KAYA 959 you acknowledge that it has been collected directly from you and consent to its processing by KAYA 959. 

3.2. Where you submit Personal Information (such as name, address, telephone number and email address) via the website (e.g. through completing any online form) the following principles are observed in the processing of that information: 

3.2.1. KAYA 959 will only collect personal information for a purpose consistent with the purpose for which it is required. The specific purpose for which information is 
collected will be apparent from the context in which it is requested. 

3.2.2. KAYA 959 will only process personal information in a manner that is adequate, relevant and not excessive in the context of the purpose for which it is processed. 

3.2.3. Personal information will only be processed for a purpose compatible with that for which it was collected, unless you have agreed to an alternative purpose in writing or KAYA 959 is permitted in terms of national legislation of general application dealing primarily with the protection of personal information. 

3.2.4. KAYA 959 will keep records of all personal Information collected and the specific purpose for which it was collected for a period of 1 (one) year from the date on which it was last used. 

3.2.5. KAYA 959 will not disclose any personal information relating to you to any third party unless your prior written agreement is obtained or KAYA 959 is required to do so by law. 

3.2.6. If personal information is released with your consent KAYA 959 will retain a record of the information released, the third party to which it was released, the reason for the release and the date of release, for a period of 1 (one) year from the date on which it was last used. 

3.2.7. KAYA 959 will destroy or delete any personal information that is no longer needed by KAYA 959 for the purpose it was initially collected, or subsequently processed. 

3.3. Note that, as permitted by the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act 25 of 2002, KAYA 959 may use personal information collected to compile profiles for statistical purposes. No information contained in the profiles or statistics will be able to be linked to any specific user.    

  1. Collection of anonymous data

4.1. KAYA 959 may use standard technology to collect information about the use of this website. This technology is not able to identify individual users but simply allows KAYA 959 to collect statistics. 

4.2. KAYA 959 may utilise temporary or session cookies to keep track of users’ browsing habits. A cookie is a small file that is placed on your hard drive in order to keep a record of your interaction with this website and facilitate user convenience. 

4.2.1. Cookies by themselves will not be used to identify users personally but may be used to compile identified statistics relating to use of services offered or to provide KAYA 959 with feedback on the performance of this website. 

4.2.2. The following classes of information may be collected in respect of users who have enabled cookies: 

4.2.2.1. The browser software used; 

4.2.2.2. IP address; 

4.2.2.3. Date and time of activities while visiting the website; 

4.2.2.4. URLs of internal pages visited; and 

4.2.2.5. referrers. 

4.3. If you do not wish cookies to be employed to customize your interaction with this website it is possible to alter the manner in which your browser handles cookies. Please note that, if this is done, certain services on this website may not be available. 

  1. Security

5.1. KAYA 959 takes reasonable measures to ensure the security and integrity of information submitted to or collected by this website, but cannot under any circumstances be held liable for any loss or other damage sustained by you as a result of unlawful access to or dissemination of any personal information by a third party. 

  1. Links to other websites

6.1. KAYA 959 has no control over and accepts no responsibility for the privacy practices of any third party websites to which hyperlinks may have been provided and KAYA 959 strongly recommends that you review the privacy policy of any website you visit before using it further. 

  1. Queries

7.1. If you have any queries about this privacy policy please contact us by emailing [email protected]