The Press is Not Telling Us What We Need to Know

By Steven Friedman8 September 2010Of course the press must be free. But why does it not use its freedom to give us the information we need? Government attacks on the press have ensured that it is hard to question journalists’ priorities for fear of being seen to...
Editorial: Viva COSATU Viva

Editorial: Viva COSATU Viva

The Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC), the publisher of Amandla!, is a founding member of the Right 2 Know campaign and is vigorously opposed to the idea of a media tribunal and other censorship. However, when reading the anti-union and anti-worker...

Film Reviews | by Andre Marais

The Trouble with TruthDirector: Marion Edmunds, 2010This engaging documentary tells the story of the Guardian newspaper which was banned by the Nationalist government in the 1950s as part of its general onslaught on the anti-apartheid media and anti-communist...
Parliament resorts to censorship

Parliament resorts to censorship

As per the Sunday Times editorial below, the democratic Parliament of South Africa has resorted to censorship to block legitimate concerns of a rising authoritarianism and intolerance of critique. The Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC) was stopped...