{"id":1333,"date":"2011-11-30T21:25:30","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T21:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/30\/what-the-south-african-secrecy-bill-means-for-the\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:29:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:29:59","slug":"what-the-south-african-secrecy-bill-means-for-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/11\/30\/what-the-south-african-secrecy-bill-means-for-the\/","title":{"rendered":"What the South African Secrecy Bill Means for the Open Government Partnership | Global Integrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/747031105\/what-the-south-african-secrecy-bill-means-for-the-open-government-partnership-global-integrity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/747031105\/what-the-south-african-secrecy-bill-means-for-the-open-government-partnership-global-integrity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/xhnYjT43_TvTchi79GL-VDl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/>As South Africa took up its chairmanship of the UN COP17 in Durban this week, committing the country to play a role in saving our planet, a less than healthy environment has been created at home for other basic rights such as freedom of information.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/globalintegrity.org\/blog\/south-africa-and-OGP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via globalintegrity.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; LibertiesAs South Africa took up its chairmanship of the UN COP17 in Durban this week, committing the country to play a role in saving our planet, a less than healthy environment has been created at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/11\/30\/what-the-south-african-secrecy-bill-means-for-the\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1334,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/11\/30\/south-africa-parliament-passes-secrecy-bill\/","url_meta":{"origin":1333,"position":0},"title":"South Africa Parliament Passes Secrecy Bill","author":"aslam","date":"November 30, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesThe legislation, called the Protection of State Information Bill, seeks to update state-secrets legislation the ruling African National Congress party said was last changed 30 years ago, during the apartheid era.Via blogs.wsj.com","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1326,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/02\/doha-news-al-jazeera-and-qatar-come-under-attack\/","url_meta":{"origin":1333,"position":1},"title":"Doha News &#8211; 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