Media organisations on Thursday asked the Hefer Commission to withdraw a subpoena against the journalist who was a source of the allegation that Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka was an apartheid spy. Veteran journalist Raymond Louw told the commission that forcing former Sunday Times journalist, Ranjeni Munusamy, to testify would endanger 13 years of negotiations between media organisations, the department of justice and the South African Law Reform Commission about the removal of Section 205 from the Criminal Procedure Act. The section can be used to call on a person to reveal their sources of information to a judicial officer or face imprisonment.
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