Something to hide? Department of Environment takes the...
weekly newspaper. Secrecy, according to the 19th-century English philosopher Jeremy Bentham, is an instrument of conspiracy and ought never to be the system of regular government. Yet bureaucracy always seeks the path of least disclosure. That path is well tramped by the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (Deff). Transparent they are not. Because it’s their legal duty to provide information requested of them, they’ve become masters of diversion and diffusion. It’s not that they’re uncommunicative, but that they lead you on a merry dance just to get the facts that you’...
Source: dailymaverick.co.za