South Africa: Sanef Calls On NCOP Members to Show Their Independence By Voting Against the 'Secrecy' Bill

press release

The SA National Editors' Forum (SANEF) has been working since 2008 alongside other organisations to demonstrate to members of parliament that the Protection of State Information Bill makes serious and unconstitutional inroads into freedom of information and of the media.

Since then, the chorus of criticism of the bill has increasingly been heard by South Africans from all walks of life, and by some of those doing the detailed work of taking the bill through the legislature.

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