Jane Duncan is a professor in the Department of Journalism, Film and Television, Faculty of Humanities, at the University of Johannesburg. Her new book is called Stopping the spies: constructing and resisting the surveillance state in South Africa (forthcoming from Wits University Press). This article also draws on a book chapter she wrote for a new book edited by Aziz Choudry, called Activists and the surveillance state: learning from repression (forthcoming from Pluto Press). She tweets as @duncanjane
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