SAMNET and Regent Business School ran a workshop for Jamiatul Ulama South Africa on using research and data in organisational decision-making — the first of a broader capacity-building programme. [...]
News and Updates
SAMNET joins the calls for an immediate end to the fighting in Sudan. Solidarity that only follows the news cycle is not solidarity. [...]
Stricter alcohol legislation has been stalled for a decade through lobbying. SAMNET asks the public to make support for the Limpopo SAPS proposals as audible as the opposition to them. [...]
Who paid for the study, and who paid for the promotion, are separate questions from whose letterhead it carries — and only the letterhead shows up in a sponsored post. [...]
The American Service-Members’ Protection Act of 2002 authorises the use of force to free US and allied personnel held by the ICC — with Israel named among the covered allies. [...]
SAMNET supported an HCW4P campaign asking Discovery to call for the suspension of the Israeli Ministry of Health from the Future of Health organisation, or to withdraw. [...]
Bursaries for archaeology, archives, palaeontology, IKS, museum studies and the digitisation of heritage — the disciplines that decide whose history survives. [...]
The Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs invited written submissions on the Immigration Amendment Bill [B8–2024]. Calls for comment are the point at which legislation is still movable. [...]
Know the laws, use them, enforce them, change them. A KZN liquor licence applicant must list every place of worship within 500 metres — which is precisely the lever a community can use. [...]
The point of lawfare is not to win the case — it is to make everyone else self-censor. There is no place for hate speech, and no place for hate speech law being used to silence criticism of a state. [...]
CNN removed a panellist within hours — which should be the floor, not the exception. The harder question is whether we are building the journalists who earn those seats. [...]
Singling out businesses by who owns them has a history in this country. The children suspected of dying from tainted food were found to have died of a chemical in rat poison — long after the narrative had set. [...]