The following article was published online by the Daily Maverick. Wednesday saw the beginning of the last round of Parliamentary deliberations on the controversial Protection of State Information Bill, from the ad hoc committee...
In a late-night meeting in Parliament yesterday, the ANC used its numerical majority to force the Secrecy Bill one step closer to becoming a Secrecy Law. Members of the NCOP ad hoc committee have...
Yesterday (Wednesday 14 November) we witnessed a further postponement of the Secrecy Bill’s passage into law following the absence of opposition politicians at the afternoon’s meeting of the National Council of Provinces ad hoc committee. We call...
The Secrecy Bill is set to pass through the NCOP by the end of this month and the securocrats have dug in their heels. Yet across the country, we’ve seen the rise of a...
The Minister of State Security, Siyabonga Cwele, has just given his response in Parliament to the amendments to the Secrecy Bill, proposed by the NCOP Committee deliberating on the Protection of State Information bill...
The ANC caucus on the Protection of State Information Bill (the Secrecy Bill) backtracked on several vital concessions last night. Though in recent weeks and months the ANC proposed a number of amendments to...
OPEN LETTER: A call to all political parties: Don’t rush the ‘Secrecy Bill’, and don’t rush it in secret. Address all seven unresolved problems. To: Members of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Protection...
Right2Know has called many times for MPs to push back against the securocrats who introduced the Secrecy Bill to bolster their own powers, and today’s deliberations suggest that this may be happening at last....
The following article was published in The Guardian Secrecy laws planned for South Africa fundamentally threaten free speech and investigative journalism, and could have a chilling effect on the rest of Africa, a united front of...
The call for a public interest defense has united public opposition to the Secrecy Bill; it has been the rallying cry of people across South Africa who have rejected any proposed law that would...
