Bill a step toward totalitarian state
By TMG Editor - 24 June 2014
AS the final signing of the Protection of State Information Bill – a terrifyingly restrictive measure characteristic of totalitarian societies such as the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Castro's Cuba and North Korea, rather than an open democratic society – draws ever closer, the words of that great publisher Joseph Pulitzer are chillingly relevant:
"There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy."
Considering the ever-growing threat to the maintenance of an open society in South Africa, this quote should be at the forefront of the minds of every South African.
PE Spargo, Rondebosch, Cape Town
