Template:PD-South-Africa-exempt

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Public domain This image was first published in South Africa and is in the public domain because it is an image of or from:
  • Official texts of a legislative, administrative or legal nature, or in official translations of such texts.
  • Political speeches or speeches delivered in the course of legal proceedings. (However, the author of speeches has the exclusive right to create a collection of such speeches.)
  • News of the day that are mere items of press information.

According to the Copyright Act, 1978 (as amended), ยง 12 (8) (a), "No copyright shall subsist in official texts of a legislative, administrative or legal nature, or in official translations of such texts; or in speeches of a political nature or in speeches delivered in the course of legal proceedings, or in news of the day that are mere items of press information."

South Africa
South Africa
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