R2K welcomes the release of Apartheid Guns and Money, an important book about the networks of corruption and profit of our apartheid past. The book is authored by R2K member and Open Secrets co-founder, Hennie Van Vuuren.
This book teaches important lessons about our past, and our present and future.
The need to release apartheid documents
Two decades into democracy, we still have yet to see the full release of apartheid era secrets – millions of documents from the apartheid regime are still held by departments across government and have yet to be released to the public. The resolutions of R2K's National Summits in 2016 and 2017 have both made the call for the release of all apartheid secret records.
We salute the work of the South African History Archive and Lawyers for Human Rights in accessing documents that were used for the research of this book, but Right2Know outrageous that several government bodies (the Department of Defence and the Reserve Bank) have forced SAHA to go to court for access to apartheid-era records.