In a disappointing but not altogether unsurprising move, the communications regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has leapt to the defence of the censor... Read more
Sick and tired of too much foreign content on television and too much political meddling in the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC)? Fed up with some of the most exploitative commu... Read more
And another one bites the dust. Yet another group chief executive officer (GCEO), Lulama Makhoba, has left the beleaguered South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) before her term of of... Read more
As South Africa commemorates another World Press Freedom Day, this day will no doubt focus minds on Parliament’s decision to pass the controversial Protection of State Information Bill, or t... Read more
The news that Independent News and Media South Africa had been sold to Iqbal Survé and his Sekunjalo consortium has been greeted with relief, mostly because the newspaper group is ‘coming ho... Read more
South Africa’s online trolls: to feed or not to feed?
Don’t feed the trolls. That’s the general advice when confronted with these online pests. The wisdom behind it is that trolls are sociopaths who want to provoke anger. They do not enter onli... Read more