by Franz Kruger | Oct 25, 2007 | Media freedom
Access to information in SA has suffered because of the implementation of the enabling laws, writes Dumisani Nyalunga of Misa-SA. Despite its noble intentions, the act has many problems, and it is crucial to force the state to create better channels to disseminate...
by Franz Kruger | Oct 25, 2007 | Media freedom
Recent government threats against the media in SA put the country more closely in line with practice in other countries of Sadc, writes Lloyd Kuveya of the Southern Africa Litigation Centre’s new Media Defence Programme in Business Day. But SA...
by Franz Kruger | Oct 23, 2007 | Media freedom
There are three reasons why there's been so much reaction to the possible arrest of Sunday Times editor Mondli Makhanya and a senior colleague, writes Anton Harber in the Sunday Times. One, it conjures up an image that does not fit the model democracy South Africa...
by Franz Kruger | Oct 22, 2007 | Media freedom
The Sunday Times writes in an editorial that it is confident the voices of reason in the ANC will triumph and stop the slide towards authoritarianism visible in some of the recent steps taken or contemplated against the media. The Sunday Times writes in an editorial:...
by Franz Kruger | Oct 22, 2007 | Media freedom
Recent reports of government reaction to the Sunday Times' publication of reports about the health minister indicate a disturbing vendetta against the paper, writes Franz Kruger in the Mail & Guardian. Franz Kruger writes in his column The Ombud in the Mail...
by Franz Kruger | Oct 18, 2007 | Media freedom
As part of its 120th-year anniversary, The Star has honoured a husband and wife who have made a vital contribution to the South African newspaper world. Writing in The Star, Kevin Ritchie explains why a scholarship is being instituted to celebrate their combined 100...
