Our fragile media freedom: Journalism is under attack
From exposes on the Nkandla scandal to the Gupta emails, which detailed the extent of state capture, journalistic investigations have ...
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Press freedom: Worrying signs as SA slips in global rankings
On 19 October 1977, the apartheid government in South Africa banned The World, the Weekend World and arrested the newspapers’ ...
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Haffajee: Nothing protects freedom like transparency
Global media association the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has honoured City Press editor Ferial Haffajee for her contribution to ...
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Journalists with targets on their backs
Just weeks before the dawn of democracy in South Africa, soon-to-be president Nelson Mandela shared with journalists what he saw ...
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Whom do we trust: media or politicians?
The government might like you to think the public distrusts the media. futurefact's Jos Kuper finds otherwise. Throughout our various ...
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Zuma likes the idea of ‘patriotic’ media
President Jacob Zuma says the media must serve the interests of the public and not those of media owners. Zuma ...
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