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January 13th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Environmental groups and opposition politicians say that public information is a vital addition to forecasting services in stormy South Africa, where droughts, floods, gale-force winds and bushfires are common.
Gareth Morgan, the shadow minister of environmental affairs with the Democratic Alliance opposition party, said the “draconian” law was an attempt to “establish and protect an unfair monopoly on services offered by the Weather Service, some of which are commercial”.
Professor Hannes Van Der Merwe, head of Stellenbosch University’s Geography Department, said most independent weather services provided farmers with detailed predictions so they could plan when to plant and spray crops.
“I am not aware of any bogus warnings that have caused disruption,” he said. “It sounds to me like this is part of what has become a trend within government to centralise control.”
Isham Abader, deputy director general of the department of environmental affairs insisted there was “nothing untoward” about the bill’s intentions.
“It merely seeks to prevent the transmission of unreliable information.
Incorrect weather warnings could lead to the evacuation of an entire town at great expense to the tax payer,” he said.
A spokesman for the department later admitted this had never happened, adding: “we need to pre-empt such incidents.”
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