Operating under obvious pressure from above, ANC MPs grew increasingly agitated during Tuesday's meeting of the ad hoc committee on the Protection of Information Bill. The source of their annoyance was the slow progress on deliberating clauses in the bill, and accused DA and ACDP MPs of intentionally delaying progress.
During the morning session, the committee's chairman Cecil Burgess said if consensus could not be reached, clauses of the bill would be put to the vote to speed progress. But by late afternoon, having only worked through three of the bill's 52 sections, the ANC MPs' annoyance came to a head when the DA's Dene Smuts said she did not understand an ANC-proposed change to one of the clauses.
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