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    Committee to Protect Journalists blasts Protection of State Information Bill

    The message that South Africa is sending across the continent with a Protection of State Information Bill that is severely detrimental to the freedom of information is one of the reasons why the government needs to reconsider the bill. This was according to two leading lights of the Committee to Protect Journalists, who were in South Africa on a fact-finding mission on the bill, but also to lobby the ANC to change its stance on the bill.
    Sipho HlongwaneBy Sipho Hlongwane: @comradesipho
    12 Dec 2011
    12 Dec 2011
    Committee to Protect Journalists blasts Protection of State Information Bill

    And that's only the beginning of CPJ's concerns.

    Despite what some may believe, SA doesn't exist in a vacuum. Actions taken here can have reverberations across the continent and the world. And 17 years after the first democratic vote happened, this country still is a beacon for freedom-loving people throughout the world.

    This was the message brought to SA by two representatives of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists. The chairwoman Sandra Mims-Rowe and the deputy director Robert Mahoney met with several local editors, as well as ANC spokesman Jackson Mthembu. to express their concerns about the Protection of State Information Bill.

    Continue reading the full story in www.dailymaverick.co.za.

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    Read more: Protection of Information Bill, Robert Mahoney, CPJ, Jackson Mthembu, Sipho Hlongwane, Secrecy Bill, POIB
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    Source: Daily Maverick

    Daily Maverick is a unique blend of news, information, analysis and opinion delivered from our newsrooms in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa. There are many ways to describe exactly what we do (and for the price of a cup of coffee we’re capable of talking your ears off about it), but the best way to understand the end result is to experience it. Every part of Daily Maverick is free-to-air and no payment is required, although free registration is required for a small subset of functions and pages.

    Daily Maverick is run by an independently owned, private company with no affiliation to any other media group (or political party or religious organisation.) Follow Daily Maverick on Twitter at @dailymaverick.

    Go to: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/

    About Sipho Hlongwane: @comradesipho

    Sipho Hlongwane is a professional communicator and freelance writer based in Cape Town. Follow him on Twitter at @comradesipho.
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