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26 May 2012
                       
 
 
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Daily Podcast - May 23, 2012
PODCAST
ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe says Western investors have to realise South Africa does not need their money, United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay is calling on Zimbabwe to take...
 
 
22 May 2012
 
Organisations condemn art defacing
PORTRAIT
The defacing of a painting depicting President Jacob Zuma with exposed private parts in a Johannesburg gallery was widely condemned on Tuesday.
 
 
18 Nov 2011
 
IFP's Info Bill changes voted down
INFO BILL
An Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) last-minute tabling of 123 amendments to Protection of State Information Bill turned to farce on Thursday as the African National Congress (ANC) and all other...
 
 
01 Sep 2011
 
ANC rejects public interest defence
INFO BILL
As deliberations on the Protection of Information Bill near an end, the African National Congress (ANC) on Wednesday stood firm in its refusal to write a defence into the legislation for people who...
 
 
23 Aug 2011
 
ANC narrows definition, scope of Info Bill
INFO BILL
The African National Congress (ANC) on Monday made good on a promise to drastically restrict the application of the Protection of Information Bill, and also proposed narrowing the grounds for...
 
 
26 Jul 2011
 
State will have to sift through old secrets
SECRECY BILL
Lawmakers drafting the Protection of Information Bill on Monday turned to the potentially fraught issue of prescribing a review process for all state secrets classified in past decades.
 
 
07 Mar 2011
 
Parliament to rule on Info Bill committee
INFORMATION BILL
The future of the parliamentary committee handling the contentious Protection of Information Bill is likely to be settled on Wednesday, the Speaker's office said.
 
 
20 Jan 2011
 
Fight over scope of info bill continues
CLASSIFICATION
The ideological battle over the scope of the Protection of Information Bill continued on Thursday with the ANC rejecting the need for a defined list of state agencies that may classify documents.
 
 
 
                       
 
 
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