Speaker, that is why the DA proposed a public interest defence. The DA said it should not be a criminal offence to disclose classified information if the disclosure of the information was a genuine and bona fide act in the furtherance of the public interest, but the ANC said no. So, the DA proposed an alternative. It said, we should specify the exceptional circumstances when classified information can - and indeed should - be exposed in a constitutional democracy, but the ANC said no.
The DA said journalists should not go to jail if they expose an unlawful act, but the ANC said no. The DA said journalists should not go to jail if they expose incompetence, but the ANC said no. The DA said journalists should not go to jail if they expose inefficiency, but the ANC said no. The DA said journalists should not go to jail if they expose administrative error, but the ANC said no. [Interjections.]