by Franz Kruger | Feb 3, 2010 | Media freedom
FIFA has issued a press release which seeks to reassure the media that the purpose of accreditation terms is "not, and has never been, to restrict press freedom", according to a report on iol.co.za. This was released on the same day that The SA Media...
by Franz Kruger | Feb 2, 2010 | Media freedom
BOTSWANA'S National Broadcasting Board has withdrawn a broadcasting licence from controversial Zimbabwean investor, Oscar Kubara, and his Munhumutapa Afrocan Broadcasting Corporation, writes Lekopanye Mooketsi in Mmegi. Kubara's tricks in trying to...
by Franz Kruger | Feb 2, 2010 | Media freedom
AN ETHIOPIAN judge has entenced a journalist to prison in connection with a January 2008 column that criticized Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s statements about religious affairs in Ethiopia, according to local journalists, according to a media...
by Franz Kruger | Jan 28, 2010 | Media freedom
THE National Chairperson of the Malawi Chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA), Brian Ligomeka has asked government to lift the ban on advertisement which it has meted to Nation Publications Limited, writes Angella Phiri for the Malawi Tribune....
by Franz Kruger | Jan 28, 2010 | Media freedom
SA Police released the Tunisian owner of Britain's Islam Channel after holding him for two days on an international terror warrant issued by his homeland, saying on Wednesday that Tunisia had failed to respond to queries about the case, writes Donna Bryson on...
by Franz Kruger | Jan 26, 2010 | Media freedom
THE Ugandan cabinet has set out twelve tough demands, before the Central Broadcasting Station (CBS) can be allowed back on air, among them that it changes its physical location and dissociates itself from the traditional king, the Kabaka, writes Dennis Itumbi for...
