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“Universities will lose their academic freedom and academics may be prosecuted due to sensitive research. Therefore Stellenbosch University (SU) is requesting that the Bill on the Protection of Information, 2009 should be withdrawn and thoroughly reviewed,” says Prof Arnold van Zyl, acting Rector and Vice-rector: Research at the university. Stellenbosch University expressed renewed concern about [...]

Stellenbosch University (SU), specifically its Senate, believes that the Protection of Information Bill, 2009, is unnecessary, suffers from fundamental defects and will in any case be declared unconstitutional should it become law. The University is therefore in favour of the Bill being withdrawn and thoroughly revised by way of, inter alia, a process of public [...]