Institute for Security Studies
Access to Information Laws are Essential for Active Citizenship 
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 15th February 2010 Information is like water - it flows until it is blocked. One of the most promising ways to overcome blockages and to increase the flow of... →
Shaik’s Prison Release Accelerates a Review of Medical Parole Legislation
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 10th February 2010 If anything good emerges from the release of President Jacob Zuma's friend and one time financial advisor Shabir Shaik on medical parole, it is... →
Internet Scams On The Rise During 2010
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 9th February 2010 With the 2010 Fifa World Cup drawing closer, excitement is mounting amongst football lovers in South Africa and across the globe. Everyone seems to... →
No Firm Date Set for Zero Nuclear Weapons
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 8th February 2010 Nuclear weapons are the most inhumane weapons ever conceived, inherently indiscriminate in those they kill and maim, and with an impact deadly for... →
The Evolving Face of Piracy in the Horn of Africa
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 1st February 2010 The largest ransom ever paid to Somali pirates was dropped on 17 January 2010, onto a Greek-flagged oil tanker with two million barrels of oil on... →
Terrorism, Human Rights and One Al-faisal
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 27th January 2010 The Kenyan government having pressed the self-destruct button, appears set on accelerating the process of religious radicalisation in the country... →
Southern Africa Needs to Criminalise Human-Trafficking
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 26th January 2010 On 19 January, the BBC reported the decision of a court in Abu Dhabi, to send 13 Syrians, all but one of whom were men, to prison for trafficking... →
The ‘Criminal’ on the TV Screen
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 25th January 2010 On Friday 15 January South Africa's premier independent free-to-air channel, e.tv, aired footage of two self-identified criminals telling of their... →
Apartheid, Reparations and the United States Courts
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 25th January 2010 Recently South African Professors John Dugard and Kader Asmal have been in the news for their opinions for and against the Khulumani litigation... →
The Problem of Presidential Pardon
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 20th January 2010 To pardon or not to pardon? And then who to pardon? These questions have occupied acres of column space, bloggers too numerous to tally and South... →
