Weaponising the law against journalists is killing our democracies
The Thomson Reuters Foundation has partnered with the Tow Centre for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School to produce a report that ...
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Court orders former Lottery boss to pay punitive legal costs to journalist
Judge James Lekuleni ordered Phillemon Letwaba to pay Raymond Joseph’s legal costs on a punitive scale because Letwaba wasted the ...
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Iqbal Survé sues GroundUp – but only for R5-million
GroundUp is being sued for R5-million by Iqbal Survé, and Independent Media, Independent Online and Independent Newspapers. Survé is chairman ...
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GroundUp’s Ray Joseph is suing Lottery COO for defamation
Veteran GroundUp freelancer Raymond Joseph is suing the suspended chief operating officer of the National Lotteries Commission (NLC), Phillemon Letwaba, ...
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Baby lies: Dissecting SA’s biggest fake news story
Barely three weeks after the South Gauteng High Court found that The Star, had defamed Maria Ramos, the Gauteng health ...
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Facebook face-off – SA law firm takes on Facebook and wins
The court has flexed its muscle to hold that the local and international Facebook operations are required to step in ...
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