Pretoria3 days of a R12 million spy-fund trial ran in secret.
Media groups say a 14 October evidence order is being used to bar everyone.
The order restricts evidence on South Africa’s State Security Agency members, methods and classified files, but does not authorize closing the trial, applicants argue.
The state declined to release its application, calling it classified, according to the affidavit.
The applicants want the Gauteng High Court to rule before the trial resumes.
How each outlet framed it
- Daily Maverick
- lays out the media applicants' legal argument that the order does not authorise closing the entire trial in camera
Sources: Daily Maverick