Education, rather than conflict, was needed over the Protection of State Information Bill, ANC member of the Western Cape provincial legislature Mcebisi Skwatsha told a public hearing on the bill in Gugulethu on Tuesday.
Skwatsha said research showed that less than 30 percent of South Africans knew about the bill.
“We don’t need to fight about this bill; what we need is to educate each other about it,” said Skwatsha.
MK Military Veterans Association Western Cape treasurer Themba Sidini told the hearing his party would kill for the bill.
“We as the MKMVA and the ANC will protect the bill, and if we have to spill blood for it then so will it be,” said Sidini to applause from ANC supporters.
Sidini said the bill was a cornerstone of the country’s democracy and that it sought to protect the country from undue foreign influences.
“Libya collapsed because it did not have a Protection of State Information Act,” he told the partially full Gugulethu Sport Complex.
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Libya fell becuase the people of Libya were sick of the dictator that had been in power for 40+ years. Remember this lesson, and the bloody bitter end Gadaffi met with. Not becuase they didn't have an act; they had the green book! Which in the end meant nothing!
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