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/ 15 February 2011
Opposition parties on Tuesday walked out of a government presentation on the contentious Protection of Information Bill.
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/ 21 January 2011
Critics say that changes to the Protection of Information Bill do not go far enough.
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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.
Although the ANC will dictate the priorities, it’s up to us to make the country work writes <b>Rapule Tabane</b>.
Even in the euphoric dawn of democracy in 1994 there were fears of the lack of a credible opposition that could challenge the ANC.
After all that South Africans had fought for, was the country building "a society of secrets" asked former communications minister Jay Naidoo.
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/ 14 December 2010
There are 145 journalists in jail in 28 countries worldwide — the highest number reported in the past 14 years.
ANC veteran Pallo Jordan has criticised his party’s media appeals tribunal plans and the Protection of Information Bill at a debate.
The public protector’s office said at a conference it was in the process of reviewing the latest draft of the Protection of Information Bill.
Corné and Twakkie fight for your right to blissful ignorance.
The media will be consulted when regulations detailing the introduction of the Protection of Information Bill are drafted, the govt said on Friday.
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/ 12 November 2010
MPs are expected to spend the coming weeks trying to harmonise the contentious Protection of Information Bill with liberal post-apartheid laws.
State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele will meet Sanef in Pretoria on Friday to discuss the Protection of Information Bill, the ministry said.
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/ 10 November 2010
Ruling party MPs accepted changes to the Protection of Information Bill to protect whistle-blowers, but baulked at doing the same for the media.
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/ 9 November 2010
The latest changes to the "Secrecy Bill" are being made available on an ongoing basis by the Parliamentary Monitoring Group.
It is possible to fix the proposed Protection of Information Bill in a way that would ensure all constitutional rights are recognised, Sanef says.
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/ 4 November 2010
Wouldn’t it be grand if health journalism became the healthiest trend-setter for the whole family of journalism?
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/ 27 October 2010
"How diverse is our media?" was the question pondered upon at the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>’s Critical Thinking Forum.
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/ 27 October 2010
The Right2Know campaign rounds off a week of action against the Protection of Information Bill with marches in Durban and Cape Town.
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/ 27 October 2010
Debating the Protection of Information Bill "hysterically" would not help people who had concerns about it, ANC veteran Pallo Jordan said on Tuesday.
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/ 25 October 2010
"In the most significant Media Freedom Week since 1994, the South African media is caught in a moral dilemma," writes <b>Rapule Tabane</b>
State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele came in for criticism on Friday following his presentation dealing with the Protection of Information Bill.
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/ 22 October 2010
Those who argue against the Protection of Information Bill believe SA has no legitimate national security to protect, Minister Siyabonga Cwele said.
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/ 22 October 2010
Thirty-three years ago, on October 19 1977, the apartheid government banned three newspapers and many political organisations.
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/ 22 October 2010
<strong>Richard Calland</strong> says: "Something potentially very remarkable, and very significant, is happening to civil society in South Africa"
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/ 22 October 2010
Freedom of expression along with the vote — universal suffrage — is the basis of democracy.
If the march to commemorate Black Wednesday was anything to go by, South Africans are still in the dark about the Protection of Information Bill.
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/ 19 October 2010
Hundreds of people participated in a march through Johannesburg on Tuesday to commemorate Media Freedom Day.
The DA on Tuesday delivered a petition containing 28 710 signatures, protesting the Protection of Information Bill, to Tuynhuys.
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/ 11 October 2010
The State Security Agency will not let DA MP David Maynier have a copy of a presentation it made to a parliamentary committee earlier this year.
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/ 23 September 2010
As the draft Protection of Information Bill makes its way through Parliament, a different judgement was made in the European Court of Human Rights.