Original reporting and commentary about polygraphs, voice stress analyzers, and other purported "lie detectors."
Philip Devine, editor of South Africa’s Business Report Online, offers a critical assessment of polygraph “testing” and gives a nod to AntiPolygraph.org in a 3 November 2006 editorial article titled, “Big fat liar”: Big fat liar November 3, 2006 By Philip Devine The use of ‘lie detector’ machines in South Africa is not often something …
This short article by the Cape Times’ environmental writer is reproduced here in full: Lie detector tests for anti-poaching team December 3, 2004 The Overstrand Municipality is looking for a tough, committed group of people to join their revamped anti-poaching unit and who will be prepared to undergo lie detector tests before they get their …
Jaspreet Kindra reports for the Mail and Guardian. Excerpt: The Inkatha Freedom Party apparently wants to subject its national council members to a lie detector test to establish whether they have leaked confidential information to the media and other organisations. The IFP’s intentions were disclosed at its council meeting during the party’s national conference in …
Liz Clarke reports on polygraphy for the Sunday Tribune. Excerpt: South Africa’s billion-rand security and insurance industries, as well as police and investigative services, could be forced to rethink lie-detecting strategies following an international probe into the reliability of polygraph testing. The polygraph, used extensively in South Africa to uncover criminal and fraudulent activities, was …
Graeme Hosken of the Durban, South Africa Daily News reports. Excerpt: The three-day strike by Fidelity Cash Management Services employees ended on Tuesday when workers and management agreed to sit down and talk about their disputes. Fidelity Cash Management Services employees went on strike on Saturday to protest about the compulsory polygraph test which workers …
Graeme Hosken of the Durban, South Africa Daily News reports on a strike over polygraph “testing.” This short article is cited here in full: Scores of Durban’s automatic teller machines (ATMs) and businesses are expected to run dry on Monday after Fidelity Cash Management Services (FCMS) employees went on strike over the weekend. The strike …
The South African Press Agency (SAPA) reports in an article titled, “Sex Questions Necessary.” Excerpt: Cape Town – Presidential Press Corps (PPC) candidates will be expected to complete a questionnaire and, if necessary, follow-up interviews, but will not be required to undergo a polygraph test, Intelligence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said on Saturday. She was responding …
Adrian Lackay of the South African Beeld newspaper reports in this article titled, “Press corps: Sex lives ‘not relevant’”: Cape Town – President Thabo Mbeki’s office and media organisations plan an urgent meeting to discuss the “crude treatment” of journalists and possible unconstitutional action by the National Intelligence Service (NIS) against those wanting to qualify …
John Matisonn of the Sunday Independent reports in an article titled, “Spooks probe sex lives of presidential press.” Excerpt: The National Intelligence Agency (NIA) has been questioning journalists on details of their sex lives, as part of a security clearance process for membership of a proposed new presidential press corps. Colleagues of the journalists who …
Jessica Bezuidenhout reports for the Sunday Times of South Africa in an article titled, “Staff under scrutiny for arms-probe leak.” Excerpt: INVESTIGATORS probing South Africa’s R66-billion arms deal have been told to undergo lie-detector tests and lay bare their private telephone records while their bosses hunt down staff suspected of leaking information to the media. …