The definitions of "national security" and "institution or person of national security interest" are so wide in the controversial Spy Bill that they would give intelligence services the power to subject almost anyone to invasive security checks, civil society organisations have charged.
Parliament's public hearings on the General Intelligence Laws Amendment Bill (GILAB) continued on Monday in KwaZulu-Natal, where participants' input had very little to do with the contents of the bill.
This followed the pattern of public hearings, although several groups expressed serious concerns about the bill at a hearing in Cape Town last week.