Yesterday, 3 May 2007, World Press Freedom Day, the Freedom of  Expression Institute addressed the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs, articulating the Institute's objections to the current draft of the Film and Publications Amendment Bill. The Institute's representatives, Simon Delaney and Na'eem Jeenah, were harangued by Committee chairperson, Patrick Chauke, who kept insisting that the FXI supported child pornography, despite the FXI's repeated clarification that it supported the criminalising of child porn. The FXI's main thrust was that the exemption that exists in the current Film and Publications Act for print and electronic media must be maintained (the Bill removes the exemption) and a limitation be inserted which excludes child pornography from the exemption. 

See the FXI's written submission on the FPB