“In a society plagued by lack of transparency, accountability. and high levels of corruption, the right of access to information is of paramount importance to counter such deficiencies in South Africa’s democratic dispensation. The right of access to information forms the bedrock of the realisation of a number of rights, and more importantly for a government ‘in the sun’, by limiting secrecy and strengthening the means through which the public may both meaningfully participate in decision-making, and to hold government accountable.”

~ South African Human Rights Commission