Silly matric results debate

A whole R5 million threat to the department of basic education because they want to let the newspapers publish matric results.

- Richard Chemaly

Now the courts have to deal with it.

Because when you don't think of streamlining your legal system and just trying to patch things together, you land up with some hilarious combinations.

Imagine a system where you have legislation to promote access to information next to legislation to inhibit it on the basis of it being personal and private. Throw in a regulator who takes a very broad interpretation of privacy and a department which thinks there's importance to publication and you get some interesting results. I won't even go into the Rica Act and the effects it should have that everybody conveniently neglects to talk about.