South Africa has been a global example of freedom and equality since it ended apartheid two decades ago. But, with a new proposed law that will curtail the right to government information, that freedom is in jeopardy.
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CAPE TOWN – Accurate information is the oxygen that keeps democracy breathing. It is the key to ensuring a government’s probity, and to monitoring its relations with the large corporations that drive modern economies. Without accurate information, a country’s citizens are at the mercy of whatever potentially corrupt group happens to be controlling public agencies and making and enforcing the law.