Security is 'usurping the throne'
The new intelligence Bill has run into a new flak as critics complain that it threatens to concentrate power in the state security minister's hands.
The new intelligence Bill has run into a new flak as critics complain that it threatens to concentrate power in the state security minister's hands.
The Right 2 Know campaign says the Protection of Information Bill remains a threat to freedom and transparency, and should be scrapped and redrafted.
The controversial Protection of Information Bill will go all the way to the Constitutional Court if President Jacob Zuma does not intervene.
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.
The state law adviser on Tuesday presented MPs with more than 60 pages of suggested further changes to the Protection of Information Bill.
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Ad hoc committee heeds civil society warnings about proposed intelligence legislation, writes Clive Rubin.