The Mail & Guardian today (Friday 30/03/2012) published an article regarding the allegations against crime Intelligence boss Lieutenant General Richard Mdluli,The investigation done by the Mail & Guardian which led to the discovering of sensitive report could have led the Editor and the Journalist who did the investigation to face 5 to 25 years jail imprisonment if the so called "Protection of Information was already functioning. http://mg.co.za/article/2012-03-30-the-mdluli-report.
If government wants to combat against corruption why are they busy trying to push the implementation of this bill ( Protection of Information Bill )or they further want to hide sensitive information about corruption?
Protection of Information Bill aims to regulate the classification, protection and dissemination of the state information, thus those who are found in possession of classified information will face a 5 to 25 years jail imprisonment.Therefore this bill will restrict journalist to hold government accountable of hidden corruption. My take with regards to this issue is that all the stakeholders including the government must find another better way of dealing with unlawful disclosure of information and stop corruption and lastly LEAVE ALONE journalist to do their job.
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ANC is crazy with this Bill the public protector is right when she says they must re consider this so called Bill.
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ReplyDeletethe ANC is contradicting its self, 1994 was the democratic year and the bill rights stated that everybody is entitled to freedom of speech except when it came to religion,gender etc etc and now all of a sudden freedom of speech is an issue when it comes to exposing government.we might as well go back to apartheid when journalists had to watch what they said because clearly governtment doesnt understand the meaning of democracy anymore
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