After fierce objections by opposition parties, a report recommending former ANC MP Cecil Burgess for appointment was referred back to the committee.
It was the turn of former ANC MP Cecil Burgess to be interviewed on Wednesday for the post of inspector general of intelligence.
A candidate for the post of inspector general of intelligence, on Tuesday drew inspiration from fictional Cold War spy George Smiley.
The likely choices to head both the Independent Electoral Commission and intelligence are raising unease in opposition circles.
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.
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/ 1 September 2011
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.
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/ 18 January 2011
The state law adviser on Tuesday presented MPs with more than 60 pages of suggested further changes to the Protection of Information Bill.
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.
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/ 22 October 2008
Ad hoc committee heeds civil society warnings about proposed intelligence legislation, writes Clive Rubin.