Prisha Bhoola · September, 2010

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South Africa: Proposed Protection of Information Bill – Apartheid Era Politics?

  3 September 2010

South Africa has been regarded as having one of the most free press in the world. Now, these much lauded freedoms are once again being threatened. The South African parliament is currently debating a “Protection of Information” Bill. This bill proposes to impose restrictions on access to government information and violators of the law would be punished with up to 25 years in prison.