The DA rejects President Cyril Ramaphosa’s signing of the Films and Publications Amendment Act. Not only is this a dark day for our hard won freedom of speech, but due to problems with the Government Printing Works (GPW), South Africans did not know this Act had been proclaimed until the day it became law. The President’s surreptitious proclamation of the Act indicates that the ANC government hoped this horrific piece of legislation would go unnoticed. The DA has asked the problems with the GPW be solved as a matter of urgency, and because our call was not adhered to, the Act has caught the country by surprise.
The DA will write to the Minister of Home Affairs, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, to demand that he immediately restores the website of the Government Gazette and ensure that the Green Gazette is updated as a matter of urgency. The Government Printing Works (GPW) website has not functioned for some time – either not availing the Gazettes online, or not allowing access to the website at all. And the Green Gazette has not been updated since 28 January 2022.
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