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PRESS RELEASE
November 29, 2011
Cape Town Press Club joins in commemorating "Black Tuesday"
The Cape Town Press Club joins South Africans in commemorating ‘Black Tuesday’, the day the National Assembly adopted the Secrecy Bill. While this day marked a massive assault on the hard won democratic freedoms which we all hold dear, it is not yet the death of freedom of speech. The parliamentary process is far from complete, and similarly there is talk of a Constitutional Court challenge if the Bill is adopted.
The Cape Town Press Club still firmly believes that the Secrecy Bill should be scrapped in its entirety.
Government dare not go so far as to criminalize freedom of speech. Candice Jansen has been selected to receive the Cape Town Press Club/British American Tobacco SA Senior Graduate Bursary. Candice will study for Honours in Political Communication at UCT in 2011. Rhodes University has announced Mvuso Ponono as the 2011 Barry Streek Memorial Bursary recipient. Mvuso obtained a BA at Rhodes in 2008 and will study for a Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism. Mvuso writes for various campus publications and community newspapers and tutors in English Literature and History at local schools. New members recently accepted into the Cape Town Press Club are Natasha Arendorf, Adekeye Adebajo, Mark Paterson, Barbara Bester, Yumiko Fujiwara, Alex Perry and Julian Jacobs.
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Andrew Feinstein on his new book The Shadow World @ The Pavilion Friday, December 02, 2011 Andrew Feinstein, a former ANC MP and leading member of the key watchdog committee Standing Committee on Public Accounts, has published The Shadow World, Inside the Global Arms Trade. It reveals the corruption and cover-ups behind weapons deals ranging from the largest in history - between the British and Saudi governments - to BAE's controversial transactions in South Africa, Tanzania and eastern Europe and the revolving-door relationships that characterise the US Congressional-Military-Industrial complex. |
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Comedian John Vlismas - End of Year Speaker @ The Pavilion Wednesday, November 30, 2011 Award-winning comedian John Vlismas joins us as the end of year speaker to view the year 2011 - and the year ahead 2012 - through a witty prism. |
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Judge Dennis Davis - Supreme Court Judge @ The Pavilion, Kelvin Grove Club Friday, November 25, 2011 Judge Dennis Davis will address the Cape Town Press Club on "The Judiciary under the spotlight : The turn from politics in the streets to politics in the court. What does this mean for the judicial institution?" |
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The Arms Deal: The Devil in the Detail - Hennie van Vuuren and Paul Holden @ The Quarterdeck Restaurant Friday, November 11, 2011 The Devil in the Detail: How the Arms Deal Changed Everything is destined to explode on to the political landscape. The authors - Hennie van Vuuren of the Institute for Security Studies and Paul Holden - explore how the deal - now the subject of a new commission of inquiry - is mixed up with criminal networks and outrageous personal enrichment. They also tell the story about the "shadow state" and the rise of the crooks. |
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Councillor Brett Herron, MAYCO Member for CPT Transport @ 6 Spin Street Restaurant Friday, November 04, 2011 MAYCO TRANSPORT MEMBER BRETT HERRON TALKS ABOUT TOLL ROADS. Councillor Brett Herron is the mayoral committee member for transport, roads and major projects in the City of Cape Town. He will speak to the Press Club about a recent court challenge against SANRAL’s plans for toll roads in the city, as well as a number of other public transport and related issues. |
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Zayd Minty: World Design Capital @ 6 Spin Street Restaurant, Spin Street (Idasa building) Thursday, November 03, 2011 Cape Town has been declared the World Design Capital for 2014, a project that celebrates the accomplishments of cities that have used design as a tool to reinvent themselves and improve social, cultural and economic life. Zayd Minty, Creative Cape Town co-ordinator, was intimately involved with Cape Town’s winning bid, from facilitating meeting with stakeholder agencies to writing key elements of the official bid document. He will talk on "World Design Capital 2014: A lens to collectively reimaging and reinvent Cape Town" and give an insider’s view of the gruelling bid process as well as a perspective on what the award means for the Mother City. |
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Fiona Forde - An Inconvenient Youth @ The Grill Room Wednesday, October 19, 2011 An Inconvenient Youth is an insightful, meticulously researched account of how a brave child has grown to become a grave inconvenience, not only to the ANC, but also, due to his style of politics, to South Africa’s fledgling democracy. The author, journalist Fiona Forde, will take questions about Julius Malema, the ANC Youth League and the future of SA's democracy. |
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Athol Trollip - Democratic Alliance Parliamentary Leader @ 6 Spin Street Restaurant Friday, October 14, 2011 Athol Trollip has been the leader of the Democratic Alliance in Parliament since the general election of 2009, where he defeated party strategist Ryan Coetzee for the position. He will be speaking in the midst of an election campaign that pits him against the party’s national spokesperson, Lindiwe Mazibuko, in which the DA and ID’s parliamentary caucus jointly vote - on October 27 - for its new parliamentary leader. |
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Sonam, the representative of His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, for Africa @ The Wild Fig, Observatory Thursday, October 13, 2011 Sonam is the representative of His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, for Africa. He is based in Pretoria. He acts as a representative of his people and upholds the interests of Tibetan affairs. He speaks - on the relationship of Tibet with the occupying power China - in the wake of the refusal of the SA government to grant His Holiness a visa to attend Archbishop Desmond Tutu's 80th birthday party celebrations. |
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Daniel Silke - Tracking the Future @ 6 Spin Street Restaurant Tuesday, October 04, 2011 Daniel Silke is an independent political analyst who likes to look at his crystal ball and predict the future. He will be talking about his new book, Tracking the Future. He will ponder trends to change the world in the decade and beyond and take a look at dramatic shifts in population and their impact on the planet, the rise of Africa and the role of the emerging markets and the changing ways in which power and influence are being wielded. |
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