Talk:List of National Key Points

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I started this page to put down the list as released in January 2015. The details and wiki links are still prelimanary, and will require lots of editing and correcting.. Please help by linking the to the appropriate page, If it is available.. Red links will be acceptable until appropriate pages can be found... _Gremlin ^SA 07:42, 23 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Logic and grammar

Why write "According to the South African National Key Points Act, 1980, the following is the list of all, sites of national strategic importance against sabotage, or National Key points, as released on 16 January 2015"? A 1980 Act of parliament does not state anything, much less provide a list of NKP's as at 2015! Why not say that "the following is a list of the National Key Points, designated under the National Key Points Act of 1980, which have been identified as at 16 January 2015"?

The article does not make clear that the list of NKP's is a state secret, and that this list is purely speculative.Royalcourtier (talk) 06:42, 22 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The National Key Points is no longer secret due to Court Order. National key points: The list you weren't meant to see

I have no problem with the lead change.Andynct (talk) 07:00, 22 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

There were two parts to the original 1980 National Key Points Act..

Public part: "The Laws" put in place to command protection, and allow detainment of people at or near any location deemed to be a "National Key Point".. -- Mostly detailed on its own page: National Key Points Act, 1980
Private part: "The List" of these Key points. The list has always been part of the Act, however it was never been made a public part of it. The List was amended at times by only those in the know. it was MADE PUBLIC IN JAN 2015

Speculation on the contents of the list has always be rife, with police often arresting small gatherings under the act, claiming the said area "Be it a large open field" was a NKP, and due to the power allowed under the act, detainment and interrogations were not short and easy.... NKP's were not just simply designated, the list was born from a Government that was trying to enforce separatist way's, and worked an Act that allowed them to deploy forces to strategic buildings/ structures/ locations that would allow them too continue governance (and even control services to the general public) at a time of unrest. It was a process put in place to be used to keep the upper hand in case of large uncontrollable civil war.. Post 1994, the "New" government kept it in place and used it for much the same reason..

The US White House , Pentagon and even Area 51 are also covered by similar USA laws and acts. However they've been public knowledge from the beginning..

The Lead was written with much of the background of this list in mind. Once could walk through a field and be trespassing on a NKP, because the oil pipe line supposedly run directly under it, and the officer thought you looked like you were going to try and damage it in some way, (or simply because of the colour of your skin). A List was made public in 2015, 35 years after the original list was put in place. As far as can be ascertained, no item has ever been removed from the list (only ever added), hence the list is according to the Act of 1980. Also, the Act of 1980 was the moment that made this list something of Legend..... _Gremlin ^SA 12:44, 11 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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