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Julius Malema argues against the ANC's campaign to boycott the newspaper ENGAGE AND NOT BAN THE CITY PRESS In my tenure as President of the ANC Youth League, I have been a victim of vilification and dis-reputation by many South African leading newspapers. The...
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...
By Jonny Steinberg14 August 2010Why did the police come to the Sunday Times to arrest a reporter? And why is the ANC drafting laws to discipline journalists and to keep government business secret? The obvious answers do not tell the whole story. Yes, many people in...
8 September 2010The ANC said yesterday it was fully behind the government's determination to apply the "no work, no pay" rule to striking public sector workers - and has slammed Cosatu for being too "directly" involved in the bargaining process, instead of leaving the...
Ferial Haffajee asks if we, South Africa, are moving closer towards tyranny. Zimbabwe, she warns, took three years before journalists and newspapers were hounded into submission, or folded. Ferial was one of a panel of four at the Amandla/AIDC and Mail/Guardian...
South Africa is a complex democracy, more specifically a neo-liberal democracy. Media transformation is expected to be driven by the market in accordance with neo-liberal policies. However, markets have failed over and over again to drive transformation. This raises a...