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Right 2 Know calls to scrap secrecy Bill

The Right 2 Know campaign says the Protection of Information Bill remains a threat to freedom and transparency, and should be scrapped and redrafted.

Secrecy Bill: Opposition eyes Constitutional Court

The controversial Protection of Information Bill will go all the way to the Constitutional Court if President Jacob Zuma does not intervene.

Activists mobilise as ANC rolls back Info Bill progress

Rights campaigners are up in arms over the ANC's bid to ram the Protection of Information Bill, stripped of hard-won concessions, through Parliament.

MPs debate new changes to info Bill

The state law adviser on Tuesday presented MPs with more than 60 pages of suggested further changes to the Protection of Information Bill.

Party hoppers: Can't live with them, can't live without 'em

Here's a list of our favourite party hoppers: those silver-tongued politicians who still manage to convince us that the grass really is greener.

Parly drops draconian spy Bill

Ad hoc committee heeds civil society warnings about proposed intelligence legislation, writes Clive Rubin.


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