The Protection of Information Bill and the proposed media appeals tribunal were tools to mask corruption, DA leader Helen Zille said on Saturday.
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/ 17 September 2010
The government will slightly narrow the scope of the Protection of Information Bill but otherwise preserve the contentious piece of legislation.
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/ 15 September 2010
The proposed Protection of Information Bill may well come back to haunt the state further down the line, civil society organisations have warned.
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/ 15 September 2010
The Protection of Information Bill currently in Parliament will set SA back in terms of freedom of information, an AU special rapporteur says.
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/ 14 September 2010
Writer Andre Brink believes the ANC’s proposed media appeals tribunal and the Protection of Information Bill showed "apocalyptic arrogance".
More than 200 South African and international civil society organisations got together recently to launch the Right2Know Campaign.
The government remains "fully committed" to media freedom as enshrined in the Constitution, President Jacob Zuma said on Friday.
Civil society organisations are willing to take the fight over the proposed Protection of Information Bill all the way to the Constitutional Court.
Journalism schools on Monday added their voices to criticism of the proposed media appeals tribunal and the Protection of Information Bill.
Make the press ombudsman more transparent rather than impose a media tribunal in the form proposed by the ANC, a ruling party MP has argued.
Scores of journalists staged a silent picket outside Parliament’s main gates at lunchtime on Wednesday.
The draft Protection of Information Bill does not pass constitutional muster, the General Council of the Bar of South Africa (GCB) said on Friday.
Business leaders should be raising their voices against planned media controls, said the editor-in-chief of Independent Newspapers Cape on Thursday.
Cosatu secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi criticised the proposed Protection of Information Bill during the Ruth First memorial lecture on Tuesday.
Its pillars are access to information, freedom of expression, accountability and the rule of law, according to <b>Mamphela Ramphele</b>.
It was a war of words between the ANC’s Jackson Mthembu and leading editors at the M&G’s Critical Thinking Forum. Read the report and watch the video.
Media watchdog, the International Press Institute has sent an open letter to President Jacob Zuma urging him to address press freedom concerns in SA.
Former intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils has called on the government to rethink the controversial Protection of Information Bill.
South African journalists have launched a campaign to fight what they say is an attempt to curtail media freedoms.
The Democratic Alliance has launched a political assault on the "draconian" Protection of Information Bill currently before Parliament.
ANC parliamentarians, most critical of the Protection of Information Bill, are among the committee members who have failed to attend public hearings.
The PSAM has challenged chief state law advisor Enver Daniels’s contention that the draft Bill will not fall foul of the Constitution.
If the Protection of Information Bill in its current form becomes law the free flow of information will be stemmed.
Chief state law adviser Enver Daniels on Tuesday dismissed an avalanche of criticism of the Protection of Information Bill.
It seems the media in South Africa is again under dire threat of "anti-freedom" legislation, a group of three former newspaper editors said on Monday.
Information Bill not only threatens the work of journalists, but also undermines the ability of parliamentarians to hold the state to account.
Sections of the proposed protection of information legislation are reminiscent of apartheid-era secrecy laws, according to an intelligence expert.
It’s an elephant dressed up as a sheep, the <i>M&G</i> told Parliament when the draconian Protection of Information Bill was introduced.
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/ 22 October 2008
Sanef on Wednesday welcomed a special parliamentary committee’s decision to withdraw the draft Protection of Information Bill.
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/ 22 October 2008
Ad hoc committee heeds civil society warnings about proposed intelligence legislation, writes Clive Rubin.
Public hearings on the Protection of Information Bill leave M&G journalists sceptical about the ‘protection’ the South African public needs.
Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils’s own ministerial review commission on intelligence has delivered a sharp critique of the ministry’s new draft Protection of Information Bill.