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The ANC has announced further concessions on the Protection of State information Bill after two years of public protest over the draft classification law.
The ANC agreed on Wednesday to remove a handful of bitterly contested provisions.
ANC MP Sam Mozisiwe confirmed that his party stood by the removal of a line that would have sought to make the bill trump the Promotion of Access to Information Act -- a sub-clause widely branded as unconstitutional.
He says they agreed to strike clause 49 from the bill, which sought to ban the release of information relating to any state security matter.
Mozisiwe says the ANC also agreed to opposition calls to remove a provision that would have given municipalities the power to classify information.
