Possible Secrecy Bill Clause Welcomed

The South African National Editors Forum (SANEF) has welcomed the possible inclusion of a public interest defence in the Protection of State Information Bill.

SANEF chairperson, Mondli Makhanya says that his organisation looks forward to further progress in ensuring that this bill is a democratic instrument for the management of sensitive information, rather than a tool to suppress the free exchange of information and ideas that is central to our constitutional dispensation.

In the same vein, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe, said that a public interest defence clause could be added as a ‘meeting point’, as long as it did not undermine the bill's purpose.

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