No public interest override in Secrecy Bill - Cwele:

No public interest override in Secrecy Bill - Cwele

Siyabonga Cwele

22 October 2010

Minister says such a concession would shred the legislation before it took effect

SECOND SUBMISSION BY THE MINISTER OF STATE
SECURITY, DR SC CWELE (MP) TO THE ADHOC
COMMITTEE ON PROTECTION OF INFORMATION
BILL

22 OCTOBER 2010

Honourable Chairperson of the Ad-Hoc Committee;
Honourable Members of the Committee;
Fellow South Africans;
Ladies and Gentlemen.

INTRODUCTION

Today, we present a second submission of our proposals in response to the Public Hearings and public debate on the Protection of Information Bill, 2010 [B6-2010]. In this installment, we would like to focus our input on the guiding principles that inform the approach we have adopted in relation to the Protection of Information Bill and the international best practice that underwrite it. Secondly, we would like to reiterate what information is targeted for protection by the Bill, which would be followed by some case studies of comparable lessons from some of selected democratic dispensations and round it up with some concluding remarks.

FULL ARTICLE: http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71656?oid=206547&sn=Detail&pid=71616