POIB: ANC relents on key clauses, but...

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• Daily Maverick: ANC backtracks on key clauses, but the Secrecy Bill battle is far from won... What was it that Thomas Jefferson wrote to Lafayette in 1823? Oh yes, here we go... "The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep the waters pure." Right on!

  See also: IOL: ANC eases up on Info Bill
  

• Times Live: 'Zuma, take secrecy bill to the ConCourt'... One hopes that the president would listen to the advice and act upon it, because if he doesn't, and there are still sticking points, it's a certainty that opponents of the bill would take it to the Constitutional Court.

  And let's face it, Zuma hasn't exactly enjoyed great success in that arena, has he.
  

• Politicsweb: Mining, the leftie media and Marikana... David Bullard says his sympathies do not lie with strikers who are armed and clearly dangerous (prior to the police action,10 people had already been killed - including two security guards burned to death in their vehicle) and he reckons "the blame for the killings at Marikana quite clearly lies with the unions and the barbarous behaviour of some of the strikers".

  He also takes the opportunity in the piece to take a little swipe at what he refers to as "the leftie media".

  All rightie, then...