South African national key points under the spotlight

Mluleki Mrwebi

24 May 2013

Activists have embarked on a campaign to identify national key points. 

The campaign is being spearheaded by the Right2Know campaign. 

Last year, Right2Know made a formal application to the Ministry of Police to release details on national key points but it was denied. 

The law states that national key points are installations deemed by the Minister of Police to be important to the safety, sustainability and security of the country. 

Right2Know Spokesperson Murray Hunter said people of South Africa deserve to know which structures are the national key points and which ones are not.

He further said through the campaign, the public has revealed more than 100 secrete national key points and these include government buildings, private sectors buildings also some petrol refineries.

Meanwhile Police have deemed this recent act by activists as illegal. 

This comes weeks after the controversial landing of the Gupta plane at the Waterkloof Air Force Base in Pretoria, and whether or not the base is a national key point. 

Hunter argues that there is nothing illegal about this campaign because the citizens use the available information to identify the national key points.

Hunter added that most buildings are written at the entrance, others have it the information readily available on their websites.