by Franz Kruger | Oct 5, 2009 | Media freedom
SA Communist Party leader Blade Nzimande has accused the Independent Group of newspapers of "unpatriotic" behaviour for employing former Scorpions investigator and supposed author of the Special Browse Mole Report, Ivor Powell, writes Nkululeko Ncana in The...
by Franz Kruger | Sep 30, 2009 | Media freedom
THE Kenyan government and media are locked in yet another showdown, this time round on the issue of frequencies and the role of the Media Council in self-regulation, writes Dennis Itumbi for journalism.co.za. Though media players are divided over the merits of a new...
by Franz Kruger | Sep 30, 2009 | Media freedom
THE staff of the SABC investigative unit, Special Assignment, are being subjected to office raids and are being demanded to take lie detector tests, as the public broadcaster continues its hunt for the person who leaked a programme on...
by Franz Kruger | Sep 30, 2009 | Media freedom
SUDAN says it is withdrawing official censorship of the media, writes Dennis Itumbi for journalism.co.za. No less an authority than President Omar al-Bashir has announced an end to state censorship of the media. In a decree announced Sunday, Bashir put an end...
by Franz Kruger | Sep 29, 2009 | Media freedom
THE National Broadcasting Board (NBB) has asserted that it has jurisdiction over both licensed and unlicenced broadcasters operating in Botswana, writes Ephraim Keoreng in Mmegi. Responding to Mmegi queries NBB board member Dr Thulaganyo Mogobe said that according to...
by Franz Kruger | Sep 25, 2009 | Media freedom
TWO editors of The Independent magazine have been charged with publishing seditious statements against the Ugandan President, writes Edward Anyoli in The New Vision Andrew Mwenda and Charles Odoobo Bichachi were charged at Buganda Road Court. Prosecution said...
