Surveillance practices are increasingly becoming dynamic and pervasive, spurred on by the ever-mutating changes in technological inventions at a global level. The practice of surveillance has become embedded in our everyday digital communications, public spaces, workplaces, cross-border movements, financial transactions, logging transactions and many other spaces on which citizens interact. What makes the case of southern African region unique is not only the increasing pervasiveness of surveillance, but the acute lack of transparency in the practice, the absence of necessary and proportionate regulations and the politicized nature of surveillance in the region. This is worrisome in a region where constitutionalism is sluggish, democracy is decline and (semi) authoritarian tendencies are becoming more entrenched.
Digital Surveillance in Southern Africa
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