The controversial ‘Secrecy Bill’ continues its beleaguered passage through the legislature. There have been some amendments, in the face of national and international protest against this unconstitutional piece of legislation. For an excellent analysis of why these changes are not...
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Nadine Gordimer has written about the Protection of State Information Bill in The New York Review of Books: The regime of racism in South Africa was maintained not only by brutality—guns, violence, restrictive laws. It was upheld by elaborately extensive...
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From the Mail & Guardian November 25th, 2011 During this week’s Black Tuesday protest outside Parliament, activist Zackie Achmat lowered the South African flag to half-mast. A policeman with a roll of crime-scene tape in his hand stepped forward as...
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Cape Town and London, November 23, 2011 South African PEN and PEN International today expressed alarm over the passage of the Protection of Information bill by the National Assembly, saying that the bill, if enacted into law, represents ‘a retreat...
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PEN International is deeply concerned that South Africa’s Information Protection Bill still embraces too much “secrecy” despite changes Delegates at the annual congress of PEN International in Belgrade from 12-18 September 2011 expressed deep concern that while recent amendments to...
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