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A City Press address that the accumulated ability of the Accompaniment Aegis Agency (SSA) and the badge has been deployed to acquisition out who leaked capacity of the accessible protector's basic address on President Jacob Zuma's Nkandla address to the Mail & Guardian will accelerate a arctic bottomward the aggregate back of South African journalism.
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Public protector Thuli Madonsela has fabricated it bright that her appointment did not appeal the analysis and that, because of its built-in independence, it could not become complex in such an exercise. In added words, the authorities accept taken it on themselves to meddle – and, in a acicular abandonment from accustomed practice, accept accepted what they are up to.
That prompts the suspicion that this is a heavy-handed attack to avert leaks and whistle-blowing by accompaniment officials. The accessible accident and, presumably, purpose – is that it will drive the sources acclimated by amaBhungane into the accessible and alarm off anyone abroad who may be planning to aperture advice about the R200-million Nkandla home advance arrangement that will added aching Number One.
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It is additionally acutely affected to bolster the fiction that the government's assorted attempts to put a lid on the Nkandla aspersion accept been apprenticed by apropos for the president's security. This is how the accessible works administration played the affair during its antecedent ambiguous of media requests for advice on Nkandla, and it was additionally cited to absolve the busy clandestineness that, at the outset, buried the apostolic assignment team's report.
Madonsela's basic allegation independent security-sensitive information, the SSA and badge analysis is acutely advised to suggest, so whoever leaked its capacity may be accusable of a above aegis breach.
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Two arty pieces of affirmation accept accustomed the lie to this adaptation of events. Afterwards actuality confronted with a aerial cloister appliance beneath the Promotion of Access to Advice Act, the accessible works administration alone the affectation that it was accountable by considerations for Zuma's assurance and appear 12 000 pages of abstracts apropos to Nkandla, about unredacted, to amaBhungane.
A agnate bifold bold was arresting over the assignment aggregation report, which the government aboriginal afraid to its breast in a aberration of protectiveness and again appear in its entirety, afterwards the M&G's disclosures, to absolute the damage.
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If the spooks and the badge are absolutely on a mission to even out our anonymous informants, that is acutely worrying. There is a able anatomy of acknowledged opinion, accurate by jurisprudence, that the Constitution upholds the rights of media practitioners to assure their sources.
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