SAPS threatens Independent with apartheid-era law

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• Mail & Guardian: SAPS threatens media group with legal action over Phiyega tapes... How's this for a strange one... A state organisation in "the new democratic South Africa is using an apartheid-era law - the Protection of Information Act (PIA) of 1982 - to get its way."

  Now, according to the Mail & Guardian report, "Government does not deny that the 'Secrecy Bill's' predecessor, PIA, was open to abuse by the apartheid regime, which used it to hide state information at will and jail those who disseminated 'classified' information."

  So SAPS now uses this same law to threaten a media group?

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