This past month, Our Data Bodies co-hosted a Technology, Discrimination, and Exclusion workshop with Cape Town-based civil society organization, Open Secrets. The workshop focused on knowledge generation around specific issues of data collection, collusion between private and government sectors, and ideas of ethical data usage in South Africa. The workshop took place at Community House in…
Photo Credit: New Frame News Part two of this interview is below, to read part one, click here: Kim M Reynolds: You kind of you detail the industry of private security, which is really interesting for me as well, something that I’ve been kind of thinking about deeply and particularly the ways that private security…
Ziyanda Stuurman shares her reflections on her debut book, Can We Be Safe: The Future of Policing in South Africa, broader insights on the inadequate delivery of safety and justice from the police and what the vision of abolition could be in South Africa. Ziyanda Stuurman is a political science and security studies graduate who…