by Franz Kruger | Oct 15, 2009 | Media freedom
TEMPERS are flying off the handle as polling day, October 16, approaches. In a statement, the Director of Broadcasting Services, Mogomotsi Kaboeamodimo, accused members of the Botswana Congress Party (BCP) of causing chaos at Botswana Television studios before...
by Franz Kruger | Oct 15, 2009 | Media freedom
ERITREA still holds 15 journalists in detention, a new report released by the Horn of Africa Editors Forum says, writes Dennis Itumbi for journlaism.co.za. A further four have died over the last one year, while an undisclosed number have managed to escape from prison....
by Franz Kruger | Oct 14, 2009 | Media freedom
THE Seychelles government is promising its journalists intensive consultations before setting up a media regulatory commission, writes Dennis Itumbi for journalism.co.za. According to an email update by the Eastern Africa Journalists Association based in Djibouti,...
by Franz Kruger | Oct 14, 2009 | Media freedom
SOMALI'S extremist group Al-Shabaab, is taking the battle to media newsrooms, individual journalists, advertisers and even the airwaves, issuing what it calls new directives to govern what goes on air, writes Dennis Itumbi for journalism.co.za. Any journalist who...
by Franz Kruger | Oct 12, 2009 | Media freedom
HAVING had to deal with the shenanigans at the SABC, MPs are now targeting the simmering tensions and power struggle between the management and the council of the communications regulatory body, Icasa, writes Siyabonga Mkhwanazi in the Sunday Tribune. The National...
by Franz Kruger | Oct 12, 2009 | Media freedom
AN unlit petrol bomb has been thrown into the home of the editor of an online newspaper devoted to reporting on political matters in Oudtshoorn and the Eden District municipality, writes Ella Smook in the Cape Argus. "You have been warned. Now you must...
