As an active member of the Right to Know Campaign (R2K), Khulumani notes that a report on the public hearings held across the country about the Protection of State Information Bill (POSIB) was tabled in Parliament today and is to be discussed throughout this week by the Portfolio Committee chaired by Ms Faith Kwaza. Her contact details are:  Cell: 072 122 0371; Tel: 021 403 8062 and E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Khulumani will be following the developments on this bill with interest in the context of the threats to access to information that cold result in diminishing the hard-won right of access to information in South Africa as a constitutional right to promote transparency, openness, responsiveness and accountability in government as we try to move out of the historical practices of the secrecy of the past.

Harnessing the sun's abundant power could provide a part solution for people who cannot afford escalating electricity costs. Its rays directed by curved dishes can cook food and boil water.

NomaRussia Bonase believes solar cooking can be an empowerment tool. From her garage, which serves as Khulumani's meeting place, she tells her audience: "Ours is a struggle for economic justice and we are not ­getting this.

"So let's use this to show the government that we can be self-sufficient … only by being active can you stop being a victim and become a victor."

Khulumani welcomes the landmark decision handed down this morning by the North Gauteng High Court that the South African authorities must investigate Zimbabwean officials, who are accused of involvement in torture and crimes against humanity in Zimbabwe.

The litigants, the Southern African Litigation Centre (SALC) and the Zimbabwe Exiles’ Forum (ZEF) expressed appreciation for the very strong ruling of Judge Hans Fabricius which asserted that the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and the South African Police Services (SAPS) had acted unconstitutionally and unlawfully in not taking forward the original investigation into Zimbabwean officials linked to acts of state-sanctioned torture  (SEE PRESS RELEASE ATTACHED).

It has been an unacceptable reality that the member countries of the South African Development Community have refused up to the present, to investigate and prosecute perpetrators whenever they travel to South Africa and other SADC jurisdictions.

Dear Sir, The members of Khulumani Support Group, the membership organisation of struggle veterans who lived at the frontlines of the resistance to apartheid oppression within the country and who suffered gross violations of their human rights as a result of the stands they made for justice and the achievement of democracy in South Africa, honour you as our respected President in whom we have placed our trust to facilitate the resolution of the issues that remain outstanding for our members.

1 May is the Anniversary of the Murder of David Webster, a partner of one of Khulumani's Founders, Ms Maggie Friedman. This 1990 tribute by Lloyed Vogelman, the founder and former Director of the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation was published in Psychology in Society, 1990, No. 13, 42-44.

At approximately 12:00 pm on May Day 1989, I heard the news that Dave Webster had been shot. Nearly an hour later his shooting was confirmed and I was also informed that he was dead. "Impossible" was the only word that rang true to me. Dave Webster could not die. He was too much part of life. He was too much part of progressive life in South Africa. He was too much part of mine, my friends' and colleagues' history.

KHULUMANI WELCOMES JUDGE NAVI PILLAY’S DECEMBER 2011 AMICUS CURIAE BRIEF in support of the PETITIONERS, ESTHER KIOBEL et al in their case against ROYAL DUTCH PETROLEUM CO et al: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Supports that Holding Corporations Liable for Human Rights Violations is Fully Consistent with International Law. (SEE AMICUS CURIAE BRIEF ATTACHED).

This is Khulumani's submission, dated 24 April 2012, to the Department of Justice with regards to the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act, 1995: Education Assistance and Medical Benefits Regulations (proposed DOJ amendments – March 2012).

Khulumani is commenting on the present regulations which the TRC Unit is rushing to see implemented in the words of the TRC Unit, to spend the money that is available.

Khulumani mourns this extremely limited perspective when so much is possible with the existing money in The President’s Fund and when all the submissions made for better solutions, have not been interrogated to date.

Former President Mbeki established a process to grant pardons for political offences in November 2007. The process seeks to deal with pardon applications from persons convicted for politically motivated offences committed before 16 June 1999, but who did not participate in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Accordingly, the former President claimed the dispensation was introduced to "promote national reconciliation and unity" and to deal with the "unfinished business" of the TRC.