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Institute for Democracy in South Africa
The Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa (IDASA) later known as the Institute for Democracy in South Africa was a South African-based think-tank organisation that was formed in 1986 by Frederik van Zyl Slabbert and Alex Boraine. I ...
v African National Congress'' is an important case in South African administrative and constitutional law, concerning the right of access to information. The applicants sought access to the donation records of certain political parties, but the latter were judged to be private bodies in relation to those records. Section 8(1) of the Promotion of Access to Information Act
[Act 2 of 2000.] (PAIA) recognises that a body may be "public" or "private" for the purposes of the Act depending on whether the record in question "relates to the exercise of a power or the performance of a function as a public body or as a private body."
See also
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South African administrative law
South African administrative law is the branch of public law which regulates the legal relations of public authorities, whether with private individuals and organisations or with other public authorities, or better say, in present-day South Afr ...
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Access to information in South African law
References
* Institute for Democracy in South Africa and Others v African National Congress and Others 2005 (5)
SA 39 (C);
005
''005'' is a 1981 arcade game by Sega. They advertised it as the first of their RasterScan Convert-a-Game series, designed so that it could be changed into another game in minutes "at a substantial savings". It is one of the first examples of a ...
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All SA 45 (C); 2005 (10)
BCLR 995 (C)
* C. Hoexter ''Administrative Law in South Africa'' 2 ed (2012).
Notes
2005 in South African case law
South African case law
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