VIDEO: Vavi concerned with info bill
Cape Town - Cosatu wanted the protection of state information bill to be amended to give better protection against "whistleblowers" who want to expose corruption, its spokesperson Patrick Craven said on Tuesday.
"The bill must be amended so that exposing information about corruption, crime, misuse of public money or incompetence, in the public interest, can never be a criminal offence," spokesperson Patrick Craven said in the federation's Workers' Day statement.
One of the Congress of SA Trade Unions' concerns about the bill was that whistle blowers could be silenced by finding that the evidence of corruption they have uncovered has been classified as "secret".
It would be the whistleblowers and not "the corrupt offenders" who land up in court with the threat of prison for revealing secret information.
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