Friday, September 24, 2010

South Africa: Democracy At Risk

South Africa's democracy is at risk -- a draconian and unconstitutional new secrecy Bill is in Parliament and a Media Tribunal could be endorsed by the ANC Council this week, muzzling the media and letting the security agencies operate without accountability.

The secrecy measures in the "Protection of Information" Bill and the "Media Appeals Tribunal" proposal threaten press freedom enshrined in the Constitution and will block the media acting in the public interest to expose corruption and abuse of power.

Only massive pressure from citizens across South Africa can stir the ANC to reverse these proposals and preserve hard-won freedoms. Let's make the citizen's outcry too loud to ignore. Sign the urgent petition, and then forward this message to everyone. The petition will be delivered to the ANC Council meeting.

2 comments:

Clueless said...

You've been tagged. Follow this link, http://clinicallyclueless.blogspot.com/2010/09/my-15-albums.html

If you don't want to that is okay...no pressure, but I thought this would be fun.

take care,
CC

Clueless said...

Oh my, I pray that this does not happen. It seems like going backwards in time.

take care,
CC

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