South Africa’s mainstream print media is once again at the receiving end of severe criticism. In the June-August 2015 period alone, some African National Congress (ANC)-aligned senior politi... Read more
In South Africa, press freedom, our freedom of expression rights, and communications rights, are suffering from a disease. There are a number of obvious symptoms of this illness. We need to... Read more
Media24 has objected to being ‘tarred with the same brush’ as other big media houses when it comes to transformation and the recommendations of the Print and Digital Media Transformation Tas... Read more
South African newspapers – a primary source of information for more than 15-million South Africans – are going to stay in the hands of a coterie of rich men for a long time, it seems. Chris... Read more
Now that the ANC has dragged out the old chestnut of a media tribunal to add to its determination to force through the aptly named secrecy bill, it seems that US President Obama and his Sout... Read more
Glenda Daniels considers the ANC’s attitude towards the media and why the party cannot totally relax about media freedom. The ANC revealed its own insecurities, fears and hysteria in its des... Read more
