{"id":3508,"date":"2002-04-27T15:00:32","date_gmt":"2002-04-27T20:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3508"},"modified":"2021-02-22T16:25:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T21:25:35","slug":"no-polygraphs-for-south-african-presidential-press-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2002\/04\/27\/no-polygraphs-for-south-african-presidential-press-corps\/","title":{"rendered":"No Polygraphs for South African Presidential Press Corps"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>The South African Press Agency (SAPA) reports in an article titled, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20070204045246\/http:\/\/www.news24.com\/News24\/South_Africa\/0,1113,2-7_1174219,00.html\">&#8220;Sex Questions Necessary.&#8221;<\/a> Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Cape Town &#8211; Presidential Press Corps (PPC) candidates will be expected to complete a questionnaire and, if necessary, follow-up interviews, but will not be required to undergo a polygraph test, Intelligence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said on Saturday.<\/p><p>She was responding to concerns raised in the media over intrusive and &#8220;unsavoury&#8221; questioning of candidates by the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), as part of the security clearance procedures for the PPC.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Press Agency (SAPA) reports in an article titled, &#8220;Sex Questions Necessary.&#8221; Excerpt: Cape Town &#8211; Presidential Press Corps (PPC) candidates will be expected to complete a questionnaire and, if necessary, follow-up interviews, but will not be required to undergo a polygraph test, Intelligence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said on Saturday. She was responding &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[286],"class_list":{"0":"post-3508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-south-africa","8":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3509,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions\/3509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}