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Early free press advocates The Secrecy Bill, first surfaced in South Africa in the 1820s in the Cape Colony, under the authoritarian British colonial Governor, Lord Charles Somerset, whose sole purpose was to clamp down on Freedom of the Press. Somerset’s targeted efforts to strictly regulate press and protests were directed at Scots settler duo ... Read more